Website themes using CSS and PHP

[chris]

I have seen dotted about sites that use php to select which css stylesheet is loaded, giving the visitor the option of changing the theme of the page.

does anyone use this? i have a sort of idea how this could be done i was just wondering if there was anyone already using something like that

 

[SPeedY_B]

Sounds geh.

<?php
switch($css) {
case blue:
$css = "blue.css";
setcookie ("3nigmaTheme", "blue.css", time()+3600*24*30*12*10);
break;
case white:
$css = "white.css";
setcookie ("3nigmaTheme", "white.css", time()+3600*24*30*12*10);
break;
default:
$css = "white.css";
break
}
?>
//site code here
<?php
if (!$_COOKIE['3nigmaTheme']) { 
  print "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"$css\" />";
 } else {
  print "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"$_COOKIE[3nigmaTheme]\" />";
 }
}
?>

 

[chris]

knew i could count on you mate, cheers

 

[SPeedY_B]

No problem, the top part needs to be at the very top (so it can set the cookie.. which lasts for 10 years btw as there is no method to set a permenant cookie) and the second part can go anywhere as long as it's within the head tags

 

[Geffy]

heh damn SPeedY_B beat me to it

oh yeah and wewt the PHP tags work properly in Firebird

 

[SPeedY_B]

Noticed that too, must be the new vB build, hurah hurah and so forth

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by SPeedY_B
Noticed that too, must be the new vB build, hurah hurah and so forth

Nice!

 

[X-Istence]

Personally my site uses different HTML pages and different CSS, this way you can dynamically load the entire site creating it part by part and then using the template parts to build a totally dynamic page.

 

[Geffy]

http://geffychan.co.uk/index.phps

how my frontpage works, I will be making a sanitised version of the page include files in the next few days, mine is the less complex way of going about it I think