Renegade — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 06:49:50 +0000

cool, thanks for the links, i'll have a look sometime this week

Suzanne — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:51:06 +0000

The alistapart article and the forums explain how to set cookies, hon.

necrotic — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:40:24 +0000

http://www.php.net/setcookie

Renegade — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:33:56 +0000

i don't know how to set cookies :S

Suzanne — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 02:12:29 +0000

GG -- skins are the same thing as style switchers, only you have to create entire templates of html as well as just the stylesheet. When using valid markup and css positioning, you can use stylesheets to do everything and store the preference in a cookie.

Suzanne — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 02:10:09 +0000

Now make them a cookie so they stay!

Renegade — Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:27:22 +0000

Thanks for the help everyone, finally finished a style found here:
http://chengeu.krayup.com/reading/index.php?page=body&maincss=blue

DC_Sara — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:42:02 +0000

I used skins and that seems to work the best for me. It sets a cookie and the person reading the site has an option of choosing the one that they want from a basic index page of the skins directory.

You can see it at work here: simplysara.com/blog/ and I have a tutorial here: graphics-by-sara.com under tutorials, under PHP

Renegade — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:54:04 +0000

Thanks Suzanne I'm going to try it out soon on my reading site

Suzanne — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:36:55 +0000

SET THE STYLESHEET:

    
<style type="text/css">
    @import "/styles/advanced.css";
    @import "/styles/<?php echo (!$sitestyle)?'default':$sitestyle ?>.css";   </style>

SAMPLE LINK:

<li id="websafe"><a href="/scripts/switchcss.php?set=websafe">Websafe Palette</a></li>

THE SCRIPT:

The script takes the variable and sets it as a cookie on the user's computer.

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+style+switcher

There are many open source php style switchers out there, read through the ALA article's comments for some insight into why one is better than another.