Skin Chooser

dusty550

For my website i want to make a Skin chooser using the:
<option selected>Select a Skin</option>
<option>Unavalible in Beta</option>
HTML code, But i dont know how to use the else/if statements which do like ?skin=blue to use a drop down menu to select which one. What i need to know is how can i change the WHOLE website template but still sticking in just 1 index.php file (Other files that it calls up on are fine) so it will retain the code for the Navigation and links but for the news it calls up a slightly different peice of code.
For example like
website.com/index.php?page=main?skin=blue
uses my current skin
and
website.com/index.php?page=main?skin=basic
uses a REALLY basic white HTML template?

Im not sure if i was soo clear on this so if you dont understand something just ask me.

ScubaKing22

Just use a simple stylesheet setup. Example code (albeit not very thorough):

$skin = isset($_GET['skin']) ? $_GET['skin'] : "default";
echo "<style type=\"text/css\" media=\"all\">@import \"".$skin.".css\";</style>";

That first line checks if $_GET['skin'] exists and if it does, uses that stylesheet. Otherwise it would use 'default' stylesheet. BTW, you'd place that somewhere in the <head> area of your document.

dusty550

But the problem is that my site its top part is an image with layers over it, and the rest is just a background image repeating... and very little CSS code imbeded into the .php file for the text colour, and i know nothing about CSS coding

dusty550

Well i dont wanna figure this out, but how can i set it so that i do ?skin=SkinName and it will read a different .php file rather then continue on with the rest of the index.php file?

rehfeld

Originally posted by dusty550
Well i dont wanna figure this out, but how can i set it so that i do ?skin=SkinName and it will read a different .php file rather then continue on with the rest of the index.php file?

look at include()