Re: Creating a Dynamic PHP/CSS Page (newbie design question)

cool@hosting4days.com wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My goal: is to have a template form to control css styles, where the > user fills out choices in a template form page and the results might get > stored in a MysQL prefs table. > > But I guess you can't have php mixed with .CSS page ... so is the best > way to do this like: ...? > > - set a a normal mystyle.css style sheet with no php but with all > possible choices > > - then - on the css prefs form page you might have choices like: > > fontsize = small or med or big etc. then you might store the 'actual' > css name (on the real css style sheet) associated with the choice like : > style = "HEADER1" or whatever based on the choice > > > then let's say I have a page: > > mypage.php > > that links to a css style sheet: > > mystyle.css > > - then the php page might use it like: > > class = "<?php echo $thischoice; ?>" for "HEADER1" > > Q: Is that the best way to setup dynamic css choices using php? > > Any comments would be appreciated - dave > > > Thanks, > cool@hosting4days.com > Maybe setup your table like this: selector style value ------------------------------------- HEADER1 font-size small HEADER1 color black etc... Then have a PHP page (user_styles.php) that queries the DB for the styles and echoes them: $result = query("SELECT * from user_styles WHERE userid = $userid"); while($row = fetch_assoc($result)) { echo $row['selector']." { ".$row['style'].": ".$row['value']." }\n"; } Then just link the PHP page as a stylesheet in your HTML: <link rel="stylesheet" href="user_styles.php" type="text/css" /> -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com