Incorporating Style sheets with PHP

Anon

First, I know almost nothing about PHP.
I want to make a drop-down menu so that when you select one of the choices (ex. blue and white), then it applies the proper Style Sheet to all of the pages on my website.

Thanks,
clay

ame12

Check out the include function. You can use it to include some header, style and footer info that can appear on every page. For instance:

<body>
<?php
include("header.php");
include("styles.php");
?>
...

<?php
include("footer.php");
?>
</body>

Dave

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abockover

I think I understand your problem, below is some code that should help you get started.

<?
if(!$stylesheet) {
$stylesheet = "blue";
}
?>

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/<? echo $stylesheet; ?>_site.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="GET">
<select name="stylesheet">
<option value="blue">Blue</option>
<option value="red">Red</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Change">
</form>

</body>

You would then need two css files located at /css/, blue_site.css and red_site.css

Hope it helps,

Aaron

Anon

Everything LOOKS fine, but it returns this error (only when I try to swwitch style sheets, it is fine just normal):
Warning: file("data/news/stylesheet=clayh") - No such file or directory in /var/www/hosting/bleedingmonkey/html/clay/news.php3 on line 73

Warning: Variable passed to end() is not an array or object in /var/www/hosting/bleedingmonkey/html/clay/news.php3 on line 74

Warning: Variable passed to key() is not an array or object in /var/www/hosting/bleedingmonkey/html/clay/news.php3 on line 75

Warning: Variable passed to reset() is not an array or object in /var/www/hosting/bleedingmonkey/html/clay/news.php3 on line 76

here is are like 73, 74, 75, and 76 of news.php:
end($array);
$index = key($array);
reset($array);
while(0 < $index)

also, my wholefront page is messed up.

The url for the page is www.bleedingmonkey.com/clay/

Thanks,
Clay

Anon

I fixed the front page being messed up, that was some bad php on my part, but it still doesn't work when I try to switch style sheets.

abockover

Clay,

I don't really understand your method of calling the stylesheets. If you don't mind, send me the source of the problem page to mail@aaronbock.com - I'll look at it and see what is causing the problem(s).

You might want to set your home path in PHP to the root doc directory, you should then be able to call files like this:

\rootsubdir\file.css

/rootsubdir/file.css

instead of

/home/user/docs/rootsubdir/file.css

-Aaron