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@NogDogMay 15.2005 — #I think it would be simpler to set one cookie, let's name it "style". If the user chooses style "yellow", then you would do:
Then when you need to retrieve the value, you just look at $_COOKIE["style"]. So it might be something like:
styleswitcher problems
Hi, i have done the [URL=http://www.alistapart.com/articles/phpswitch/]http://www.alistapart.com/articles/phpswitch/
So i built one myself, it switched the styles fine!! but i cant(dont no how) to retreive the cookie and call the right .css file i looked at [URL=http://php.inspire.net.nz/manual/en/function.setcookie.php]php.net-cookies
Thanks and here is the code.
[code=php]
<?php
switch($HTTP_GET_VARS[‘style’]){
case ‘grey’:
echo setcookie(“grey”, true);
echo ‘<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”screen” title=”grey” href=”styles/grey.css” />’;
break;
case ‘blue’:
echo setcookie(“blue”, true);
echo ‘<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”screen” title=”blue” href=”styles/blue.css” />’;
break;
case ‘red’:
echo setcookie(“red”, true);
echo ‘<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”screen” title=”red” href=”styles/red.css” />’;
break;
case ‘yellow’:
echo setcookie(“yellow”, true);
echo ‘<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”screen” title=”yellow” href=”styles/yellow.css” />’;
break;
default:
if(isset($_COOKIE[”])){ $_GET[‘style’] = “$_COOKIE”; }
break;
}
?>
Sheldon
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@NogDogMay 15.2005 — #I think it would be simpler to set one cookie, let's name it "style". If the user chooses style "yellow", then you would do:[code=php]
setcookie("style", "yellow", time()+60*60*24*365);
[/code]Then when you need to retrieve the value, you just look at $_COOKIE["style"]. So it might be something like:
[code=php]
if(!empty($_COOKIE['style']))
{
switch($_COOKIE['style'])
{
case 'yellow':
case 'red':
case 'blue':
$css = $_COOKIE['style'];
break;
default:
$css = "grey"; # for this example assuming grey is default style
}
}
else # no cookie, so use default:
{
$css = "grey";
}
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' title='grey' href='styles/$css.css' />";
[/code]