Multiple Themes

coffeebeans

Hey there, please forgive me if any of my being a noob irritates you. :p

Here's the deal.

My website has two different themes that you can select. I want to know how to/what to add to my index.php file that will turn the URL into something like this depending on what theme you select:

www.thesitename.com/index.php?page=home&theme=theme_name

Here's my current index.php file:

<?php
$page
=$_GET['page']; if(!
$page || $page == ""){$page= "home";} ?>
<html><head></head>
<body>
<?php include("$page.html"); ?>
</body>
</html>

It would also help if anyone knew how to have the site create a cookie that remembers what the user selected, so the next time they visit the site they see the same theme.

Any help appreciated!

dougal85

The simplest way would really be to implement a template engine on your site so you can select the template easily. However, it depends how much you want to change. if you are just changing the CSS you could select that in a similar way to selecting the page.

Also, for the cookie... there are many cookie tutorials if you google for them. You just need to store a cookie with the theme name.
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php