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Perhaps you all could be of some assistance
This isn't really flash related, but you guys seem to know EVERYTHING, so I figured I'd come here and ask this.
I'm in the process of creating a new layout for my comic strip's website. My goal is to have multiple themes and they would all just follow the same basic layout, buuuut with different pictures and themes.
For example-One of the themes would be an X-man theme, and there'd be a picture of the X-man character on the top of the page.
Then there'd be....say a Gilligans Island theme(Not really) and then there'd be a picture of Gilligan on the top.
Same pic sizes, same layout, just different colors and pictures.
I thought about having a dropdown box that would have values and then through php it would take that value, and make it into a variable like "$id". Then I could just name all of the pictures like 1,2,3 etc. base on each theme, and print it like <img blah blah ?<?php$1?>main.jpg. You know?
Now, this is difficult. If anyone has any ideas or easier methods, please tell me.
The PHP variable would also work for a CSS clip that would change the colors of like the DIV layers.
Please help if you can or lead me to someone who could. Thank you.
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I would use smarty.
http://smarty.php.net
http://smarty.php.net/crashcourse.php
Each theme would then have its own template file or files.
Basicly, you would share the varables you assigned to smarty.
PHP Code:
<?
include('lib/Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty;
if(!$theme){
theme = "default";
};
//assign varables used in the templates
$smarty->assign('comic', 'today.jpg');
$smarty->assign('title', '--Todays Comic--');
$smarty->display($theme."htm");
Your default.htm
.. could look something like this:
PHP Code:
<html>
<head><title>My Comic - {$title}</title></head>
<body>
{$title} <br>
<img src='{$comic}'>
</body>
</html>
nice and powerful 
If you wanted to theme many pages you would want to use directorys to hole the themes rather then the file names, as haveing them all mixed together would a a headache.
This is also vary close to how forums theme.
*edit* fixed bug in code
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AS a bit of a demo of what you can do with smarty - i do something some what similar on my site www.avatuar.com
Though its not really user settable, its made so i can switch themes dearing seasons and such.
PHP Code:
<?
//Config.php
define('SMARTY', '/home/avataur/www.avataur.com/libs/Smarty.class.php');
define('TEMPATE_BASE',"/home/avataur/www.avataur.com/templates/");
define('CACHE',"/home/avataur/www.avataur.com/cache");
define('TEMPATE_C',"/home/avataur/www.avataur.com/templates_c");
define('CONFIGS',"/home/avataur/www.avataur.com/configs");
if(!$template){
$template = "av20";
}
define('TEMPLATE',TEMPATE_BASE . $template);
// smarty.php
require(SMARTY);
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->template_dir = TEMPLATE;
$smarty->compile_dir = TEMPATE_C;
$smarty->config_dir = CONFIGS;
$smarty->cache_dir = CACHE;
$smarty->cache_lifetime = 3600;
$smarty->caching = 2;
// $smarty->compile_check = true;
if($debug){
$smarty->debugging = true;
}
function smarty_block_dynamic($param, $content, &$smarty) {
return $content;
}
$smarty->register_block('dynamic', 'smarty_block_dynamic', false);
// index.php
include config.php;
include smarty.php;
$smarty->template_dir = TEMPLATE . "/" . "home";
if(!$smarty->is_cached("main.htm","avataur_index")){
// Build page!
//
//$smarty->debugging = true;
$smarty->assign("template",$template);
//$smarty->assign("main","news.htm");
$smarty->assign("compile_date",date("F j, Y, g:i a"));
}
$smarty->display("main.htm","avataur_index");
You can ignore all the defines, i set them because this will be acessed from a number of directorys.
main.htm:
PHP Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>. : A V A T A U R : . . . Graphical Chat & Role Play</TITLE>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type>
{literal}
<STYLE>A:link {
COLOR: #cbdcf3; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:visited {
COLOR: #cbdcf3; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:active {
COLOR: #cbdcf3; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
A:hover {
COLOR: #caffe3; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline
}
.overlaytop {
background-image: url(avataur_files/overlay2.png);
filter: alpha(Opacity=70);
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 5px;
text-indent: 25pt;
}
.overlaylower {
background-image: url(avataur_files/overlay1.png);
filter: alpha(Opacity=80);
color: #FFFFFF;
text-indent: 5pt;
}
.text2 {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
</STYLE>
{/literal}
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.3502.5390" name=GENERATOR>
</HEAD>
<BODY aLink=#cccccc bgColor=#475d7b bottomMargin=50 leftMargin=0 link=#cccccc
rightMargin=0 text=#cbdcf3 topMargin=40 vLink=#cccccc>
<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 height="100%" width="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD>
<CENTER>
<IMG src="images/av20/welcometitle.jpg">
<TABLE width=749 height=479 border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 background="{if !$main}images/av20/welcomeimage.jpg{else}images/av20/welcomeimage1.jpg{/if}">
<TBODY>
<TR vAlign=top>
<TD width="21"></TD>
<TD width="240">{include file='menu.htm'}<BR>
<br>
<BR>
{dynamic}
Online users: {include file="/home/avataur/www.avataur.com/online_count.txt"}<br>
<br>
{/dynamic}
</font> </TD>
<TD width="488" valign="top">{if $main != ""}{include file="$main"}{/if}
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
{literal}
<SCRIPT>
var message = new Array() // leave this as is
message[0] = "A V A T A U R";
var reps = 1
var speed = 150
// DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE.
// ============================
var p=message.length;
var T="";
var C=0;
var mC=0;
var s=0;
var sT=null;
if(reps<1)reps=1;
function doTheThing(){
T=message[mC];
A();}
function A(){
s++
if(s>8){s=1}
// you can fiddle with the patterns here...
if(s==1){document.title='|o----| '+T+' |----o|'}
if(s==2){document.title='|-o---| '+T+' |---o-|'}
if(s==3){document.title='|--o--| '+T+' |--o--|'}
if(s==4){document.title='|---o-| '+T+' |-o---|'}
if(s==5){document.title='|----o| '+T+' |o----|'}
if(s==6){document.title='|---o-| '+T+' |-o---|'}
if(s==7){document.title='|--o--| '+T+' |--o--|'}
if(s==8){document.title='|-o---| '+T+' |---o-|'}
if(C<(8*reps)){
sT=setTimeout("A()",speed);
C++
}else{
C=0;
s=0;
mC++
if(mC>p-1)mC=0;
sT=null;
doTheThing();}}
doTheThing();
</SCRIPT>
{/literal} <br>
<table width="700" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><font size="2">Page last compiled on: {$compile_date}</font></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</BODY></HTML>
neat little trick, this template file is called on a by about 5 diffent pages.
If i set $main .. to another filename, the background is automaticly switched to a watermarking, allowing me to reuse this bit of code over and over
Last edited by ZorTiger; 09-09-2004 at 10:42 AM.
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