[Phpwebsite-developers] Multiple style sheets

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

Greetings,

There is new code in CVS to support multiple style sheets. Here is how it
works.

There is a new file in the theme named browsers.txt. It contains a listing
of perl search strings and the appropiate style sheet to use. For example:

Opera::opera.css
MSIE 5.5::explorer.css
Netscape6::netscape.css

The first part before the double colons is the perl search (pretty basic
in this example). Afterwards is the name of the style sheet to load
INSTEAD of style.css if the search is TRUE.

Layout then:
1) checks for the existance of the browser.txt file.
2) if true, layout reads the file and parses the list
3) if the browser is found AND if the style sheet exists, layout puts the
address of the style sheet in the {STYLE} tag
4) if no conditions are met successfully and if style.css exists, the
{STYLE} tag is set to the style.css address.
5) if none of the conditions are met, {STYLE} is never initialized.

Note that I removed the <link> tag and it is now echoed along with the
address.

I could also add a parameter to the browser.txt files so that {STYLE} will
echo the entire style sheet instead of merely linking to it. That would
allow for preprocessing of the style sheet before it hits the theme.

Let me know what you think and I will update the documentation if all is
kewl.

Thanks,
Matt



Matthew McNaney
Internet Systems Architect
Electronic Student Services
Email: ma...@tu...
URL: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
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