Sounds pretty cool.
I'm curious though, what's the file size of all that php in the css, as opposed
to actually handling 4 separate css files for color that can @import the main
body/text styles from a fifth master file?
It sounds really big and fancy, but for a style switcher I'm just wondering how
efficient all that work is?
Sorry if I sound negative, I don't mean to... I'm just not really a fan of style
switchers unless it has a distinct advantage of adjusting readability/usability
for the visitor.
Although, to your advantage, I love kick-ass php writing.
Anton
Quoting Chris Stratford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> *Hey WSG,*
>
> I have just begun re-development of neester.com once again.
> This time because my server switched Magic Quotes on... Which is good!
> But all my old scripting had addslashes etc... and it just became really
> dodgy etc...
> It was a good excuse to redevelop it again.
>
> If you goto www.neester.com you will see a grey page.
> I have used my own styleswitcher which I think is very efficent and well
> - its pretty cool how it all works.
> I will explain it here now - and I will write an article when I am
> finished with the site...
> BTW I know I could of used Lorium Ipsum - but Google will get annoyed
> and think its /latin/, happened before.
>
> Ok.
> What happens is, once you load the page - the PHP inside index.php sets
> the stylesheet location in the HEADER to:
> > > link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/d_index_default.css"
> title="Neester.Com | Default Style" media="all" type="text/css"
>
> See how the location is d_index_default.css
>
> Well, that basically means, it loads the default stylesheet, for the
> index page, with the colour: default...
> If you click on a different style on the page, say Green...
> that will then become:
> > > link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/d_index_green.css"
> title="Neester.Com | Default Style" media="all" type="text/css"
>
>
> Each page also changes the link...
> eg - if i had the contact page working.
> The link inside that would be:
> > > link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/d_contact_default.css"
> title="Neester.Com | Default Style" media="all" type="text/css"
> or if you are still using green
> > > link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/d_contact_green.css"
> title="Neester.Com | Default Style" media="all" type="text/css"
>
> Now I dont actually have 100,000 stylesheets for all these.
> I am using .htaccess to redirect these connections to a single PHP CSS
> file...
>
> I cant include the whole file here, but here is an algorithm of how it
> works is below...
>
> The PHP loads with about 100 variables (colours, margins, paddings,
> background images, fonts etc...)
> Then the PHP has a "switch" function - which deterimines WHICH colour
> you are loading...
> Then it resets some of the 100 variables - to suit that style...
>
> THEN it echo's the DEFAULT styles to the browser...
> Then it has another SWITCH, which it echo's only that PAGES RELEVANT
> styles...
> eg:
> contact page would have:
>
> #contact_form input,#contact_form select,#contact_form textarea
> {
> blah...
> }
>
>
>
> SOOOOOO
> In effect.
> The browser sees 4 stylesheets per page if you go through each of the
> styles...
> And it will cache them too - because they actually have a real path
> (.htaccess just modifies it when it gets to the server)...
> So it will run asif I have 100 stylesheets...
> but in effect, i only have one!
>
> adding those 4 styles has been a breeze.
> I just added about 20 lines to each of the STYLES SWITCH function points...
> And yeah - because you only edit the styles you want to change.
> The rest can stay default (margins for example...)
>
>
> *If you are more interested, I can send you the PHP code for this.
> I dont mind if other people use this method - I would like it if you
> gave me credit.
> but yeah.
>
> I havent seen it used anywhere else - but then again - I didn't really look.
> if you have seen this method used somewhere else - please post some links...
> Cheers!
>
> *Hope that wasnt too long...
> And I hope it is easy to understand - and someone out there learnt
> something they might use...
> *
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> http://www.neester.com
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