Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Configs and Styles

[Vlad S. <vl...@bi...>]

Matthew - 

sorry, I had no choice with the Outlook thing at the office :-(

I'll elm this time :-]


> 
> > first of all -
> > most of the options on config.php could be moved to an SQL table.
> 
> Agreed, but it should be on a module to module basis.


Well, Alessandro seems to have this one under control already ;)


> 
> > second -
> > create a generic theme that reads CSS values from SQL. That would let
> > admins change the primary website colors and fonts without having to make
> > a new theme or modify an existing one.
> 
> The funny thing about CSS is it does not like any php code in them at all.
> I am thinking of writing a CSS editor module that writes a CSS file or
> prints to screen for uploading.
> 
> Having a CSS file alone is pretty essential as it ties together all the
> other modules. I think having a module change colors and such on the fly
> would limit the module/plugin developers as they would design with it in
> mind. If I can be proven wrong great ;) but I think that style by DB would
> be difficult.
> 

True. However there are several ways to implment this (i'm sure this one sucks - i'm not that good with 
PHP yet, but the concept seems ok)

Say, you have a table (styletable) that has a couple of fields - 'theme' (varchar) and 'stylesheet' 
(text).

you populate the table with stylesheets corresponding to the theme(s).

then, you could write a little wrapper (e.g. getstylesheet.php) like this - 

(sans error checking for now...)

<?php

$result		= mysql_query("select stylesheet from styletable where theme like '$HTTP_GET_VARS[theme]'");
$style		= mysql_fetch_object($result);
echo		$style->stylesheet;
mysql_free_result($style);

?>


then, in your theme header:


<link rel="stylesheet" href="/getstylesheet.php?theme=MyFavoriteTheme" type="text/css" />


this way, you only change one line in the theme...


would this not work?...



best regards,



Vlad