[SOLVED] Skin chooser

[Zigster316]

I want to make a skin chooser out of a drop down menu but have no idea what to do. I know I need to use cookies bu what else do I need to do?

[rosierd]

Why not have a set of stylesheets for different colours and when they click a colour it then imports that stylesheet so in effect you have a new skin??

[Zigster316]

How would I do that?

[nathanmaxsonadil]

Do you have different css files?

if you do put on the very top of your page

<?php
session_start();
?>

and in your head

<?php
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='{$_SESSION['theme']}' />"; ?>

and then for your drop down menu

<form name="theme_switcher" action="changetheme.php" method="GET">
<select name="theme_switcher">
<option value="blue" name="blue">Blue Theme</option>
<option value="green" name="green">Green Theme</option>
<option value="red" name="red">Red Theme</option>
</select>
</form>

and for your changetheme.php

<?php
session_start();
if(isset($_GET['red'])) {
$_SESSION['theme'] = 'red.css';
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/");
}else if(isset($_GET['green'])) {
$_SESSION['theme'] = 'green.css';
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/");
else if(isset($_GET['blue'])) {
$_SESSION['theme'] = 'blue.css';
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/");
}else
header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com/");
}
?>

[nathanmaxsonadil]

made a mistake if no theme is set than you include no css file

change

<?php
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='{$_SESSION['theme']}' />"; ?>

to

<?php
if(isset($_SESSION['theme'])) {
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='{$_SESSION['theme']}' />";
}else
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='youmaintheme.css' />";
} ?>