Re: Theme selector?

On 1 Apr 2003 at 10:50, Steve Keller wrote: > At 3/30/2003 12:42 PM, Lars Tvedt wrote: > > > i would have used templates: heres one > > http://smarty.php.net > > > "Liam Gibbs" <liamgibbs@sympatico.ca> wrote in message > > > I'd store your themes in stylesheets instead. > > Question, Lars, does Smarty allow for easy template changing? I haven't > used it very much. > > Otherwise, if you're using CSS-P for your site, it'd be a snap just to > store a cookie that includes which CSS file the user wants for their theme > and just change the header. Of course you'd use templates with CSS. I use template systems in Perl (TT) and smarty for PHP. For both I just dynamically determine the path to templates they want /thin /thick and your templates can be completeley different, not just style changes. Also, I've not convinced anyone where I'm at now to use smarty. In my mind they are penny-wise and pound foolish. The real little extra time you might need to use a template system is richly rewarded in code re-use and future changes to the site not to mention, imho, thinking better about what one is doing. Peter