Changing CSS with PHP

[Emzi]

I wasn't sure if I should post this in here or the CSS forum so I apologise if it's in the wrong place.

I have designed four layouts for a new project and I am going to have an option for people to change the layout.

This will change the CSS and in turn change the look and feel of the site altogether.

I have searched on google for ways to do this in PHP but the ones I tried didn't work properly.

Does anyone know how I can do this or point me in the right direction?

Thanks

[MikeHopley]

Use javascript.

[Emzi]

Originally Posted by MikeHopley

Use javascript.

Hi, thanks for that.

I had just been looking around here in the CSS forum and someone had posted how to do it in JavaScript rather than PHP so I gave it a go and it worked

[Rakuli]

This would be easy to achieve with PHP. If you send the name of the css of the query string

Say you send the css name like thisismyurl.php?style=css1

then in your php

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$style = 'css1';



// Store the style choice into the session to carry it around pages

if (!empty($_GET['style']))

    $_SESSION['style'] = $_GET['style'];





// Now choose the selected style

switch ($_SESSION['style'])

{

    case 'css1' :

         $style= 'css1';

         break;

    case 'css2' :

        $style = 'css2';

        break;

    case 'css3' :

        $style = 'css3';

        break;

    case 'css4' :

        $style = 'css4';

        break;

}



// ECho the required style

echo '<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet' href="', $style, '" />; 

Hope that helps,

Cheers.

[alexgeek]

Rakuli, wouldn't it be easy for the user to save it in a session?
That way you would not need to append GETs to every page.

[Rakuli]

Originally Posted by alexgeek

Rakuli, wouldn't it be easy for the user to save it in a session?
That way you would not need to append GETs to every page.

Originally Posted by Rakuli

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$style = 'css1';



// Store the style choice into the session to carry it around pages

if (!empty($_GET['style']))

    $_SESSION['style'] = $_GET['style']; 

[Blake121]

There's a good tutorial coming out on this topic in the next newsletter.

You can get a full explanation and tutorial there

[alexgeek]

Originally Posted by Blake121

There's a good tutorial coming out on this topic in the next newsletter.

You can get a full explanation and tutorial there

On what? Sessions/Gets or multiple stylesheets?