zollet — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:37:29 +0000

You could make a directory for each of your themes.. and then instead of loading theme1.css, theme2.css, you could load ./theme1/style.css, ./theme2/style.css, etc...

Simple change...

DC_Sara — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:18:00 +0000

Thanks for that Zollet although simplier to you, it's more confusing to me. I guess I have to stare at things a while! I will look at it this afternoon and break it apart.

I tried to take out the escapes on the above code, that I did use, and received a parse error, I used single quotes as well. Any clues as to why that happened?

Also, this is in my index.php to call in the themes.php

<!-- The theme links --><h2>Skin me</h2><br />
<A href="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?theme=theme1">Fall</a><br />
<A href="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?theme=theme2">America</a><br />
<A href="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?theme=theme3">Butterflies*</a><br />
<A href="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?theme=theme4">Halloween</a><br /><br />
 

Is there a way to make it where I can put the themes in separate folders. The above code makes it impossible and I don't know how to edit it to make it work. I have everything in the blog directory and I hate that as it's hard to keep track of everything.

Thanks for y'all's help.

Sara

Mark Hensler — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:49:20 +0000

Your probably right. I was just, eh... testing you.

zollet — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:53:25 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Hensler
and then I add "?theme=not_a_them" to the URL...

Well, if a user wants to edit the URL just to mess with it then they know what they're doing, right? But you could add a little check that will make sure the format is "theme#" where # is a number. Again, this code is just to make it easier so you can add themes without having to edit the code every time but if it's very important that the users can't edit the URL to a theme that doesn't exist then switch() is the way to go.

<?php
//set the default theme
if(!preg_match(\"/^theme\\d+$/\", $theme)) {
  $theme = \"theme3\";
}
?>

And Mark, I'm not trying to say your code is bad or anything like that at all, in fact it is very good but I thought for a user that doesn't know much about programming and how to edit/add to it, this way might be better (easier)...

Mark Hensler — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:46:20 +0000

and then I add "?theme=not_a_them" to the URL...

zollet — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:45:16 +0000

Just to make it a little easier so that you don't have to add more code for every single theme...

<?php
//set the default theme
if(!isset($theme)) {
  $theme = \"theme3\";
}
//whatever $theme is, that CSS and logo are loaded.
$stylesheet = $theme . \".css\";
$headerimg = \"<div id=\\"logo\\"><img src=\\"\" . $theme . \".gif\\" alt=\\"logo\\" /></div>\";
?>

DC_Sara — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:28:23 +0000

I just tested it and it's wonderful. THANK YOU MARK! I have been pounding my head on the wall for a while with this hurdle. Now, I have learned something as well.

You can see the test blog here: http://www.blogland.com/b2/

Sara

DC_Sara — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:16:24 +0000

Thanks Mark, I will try this!

Sara

Mark Hensler — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:11:28 +0000

I think this may be easier..

<?php
 

switch ($theme) {
    case 'theme1':
        $stylesheet = \"theme1.css\"; 
        $headerimg = \"<div id=\"logo\">Image for theme one goes here</div>\"; 
        break;
    case 'theme2':
        $stylesheet = \"theme2.css\"; 
        $headerimg = \"<div id=\"logo\">Image for theme 2 goes here</div>\";  
        break;
    case 'theme3':
        $stylesheet = \"theme3.css\"; 
        $headerimg = \"<div id=\"logo\"><img src=\"theme3.gif\" alt=\"logo\" /></div>\"; 
        break;
    default:
        $stylesheet = \"theme3.css\"; 
        $headerimg = \"<div id=\"logo\"><img src=\"theme3.gif\" alt=\"logo\" /></div>\"; 
        break;
}

 
?>

Just add more cases before the default line.. If you wanted to add a theme called 'blueberry', you'd add these lines:

<?php
case 'blueberry':
    $stylesheet = \"blueberry.css\"; 
    $headerimg = \"<div id=\"logo\"><img src=\"blueberry.gif\" alt=\"logo\" /></div>\"; 
    break;
?>