Theming a site in PHP?

PranK

Hi All,

My experiment site is www.rb26.net - I want to have themes on it which are user selectable.

I know I could just have differet directorys with different sites, but what I'd like to do is have sessions with an if statement so that it uses the same index file but calls the themes from different directorys.

Can anyone help? or point me in the right direction to learn how to do this?

Also, can anybody point me towards a tutorial for building a mysql gallery with auto thumbnails etc.

Thanks in advance guys.

Christian

leatherback

Hi,

Your link problem:

I would use a switch:
Index.php is, contentwise, empty, except for your session_start() and some queries to retreive the values needed from a post, an url or an session (whichever way you want to get the right pages.

Then you have a switch on the variable page:

switch $page
  {
   case "page1":
   include("MySubDir/MyPage1.php");
   break;

   case "page2":
   include("MySubDir/MyPage2.php");
   break;

  default:
  include("indexcontent.php")
  break;
  }

// or, if you use numbers:

if(isset($page))
  {
  include("mysubdir/page".$page.".php");
  }
  else
  {
  include("default.php");
  }

PranK

I dont understand - would I use cookies also to call these for when visitors come back? Not that they will, but just for arguments sake.

Thanks!

Christian

Warboss_Alex

Yes, you'd need cookies or flat files (saving the user's I.P.) to save the visitor's preferred style.

And if it's a -theme- you're after, d'you mean colour schemes, fonts and stuff? It's the css stylesheet path that'd need to be variable, there.

Otherwise you want leatherback's solution.

Cheers,
Alex ...

PranK

no, i want all different images and everything.

I was going to use cookies, i am kinda half way there, just needed to know if anyone else has done it and how they did it.

Christian

Weedpacket

Originally posted by PranK
no, i want all different images and everything.

Oh, don't let that stop you using CSS....

PranK

thanks mate - everything i do is almost entirely controlled by style sheets. 🙂

but thanks anyhoo! 🙂

Christian 😃