[SOLVED] on php...

[eaglelegend]

How do I have my users choose the style, or it is actually a CSS style, but how do I have them choose between styles and it stays permanently like that when they log in,  and never changes until they change it?

[conker87]

Could could add another table (or another field to your current user table) with the value of the css file they want to use.

[discomatt]

Setting a cookie is a simple way to do it

[eaglelegend]

thanks guys!, I found a tutorial on the net (at last), however how do I have the cookkies stay perminantly? look:

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
var style_cookie_name = "style" ;
var style_cookie_duration = 30 ;

function switch_style ( css_title )
{
  var i, link_tag ;
  for (i = 0, link_tag = document.getElementsByTagName("link") ;
    i < link_tag.length ; i++ ) {
    if ((link_tag[i].rel.indexOf( "stylesheet" ) != -1) &&
      link_tag[i].title) {
      link_tag[i].disabled = true ;
      if (link_tag[i].title == css_title) {
        link_tag[i].disabled = false ;
      }
    }
    set_cookie( style_cookie_name, css_title,
      style_cookie_duration );
  }
}
function set_style_from_cookie()
{
  var css_title = get_cookie( style_cookie_name );
  if (css_title.length) {
    switch_style( css_title );
  }
}
function set_cookie ( cookie_name, cookie_value,
    lifespan_in_days, valid_domain )
{
    var domain_string = valid_domain ?
                       ("; domain=" + valid_domain) : '' ;
    document.cookie = cookie_name +
                       "=" + encodeURIComponent( cookie_value ) +
                       "; max-age=" + 60 * 60 *
                       24 * lifespan_in_days +
                       "; path=/" + domain_string ;
}
function get_cookie ( cookie_name )
{
    var cookie_string = document.cookie ;
    if (cookie_string.length != 0) {
        var cookie_value = cookie_string.match (
                        '(^|[\s]*' +
                        cookie_name +
                        '=([^;]*)' );
        return decodeURIComponent ( cookie_value[2] ) ;
    }
    return '' ;
}	
</script>

[discomatt]

Increase the duration, of course. I'm not sure about javascript, but with php, the cookies duration is set i seconds... so to store a cookie for a year, your duration would be

 

60 * 60 * 24 * 365 or 31536000 seconds

[eaglelegend]

ok thank you for your help!  . see ya around!