[WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Is this even possible? What I have is a site that gives people a chance to set up their own information sections where they can record their own content. I would like that an account holder can state which colours, font sizes, font styles, etc they want for their section and have this

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Beau
You can do this with something like PHP, just a script that does something like this link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=cssmaker.php / ?php header('Content-type: text/css'); echo 'H1 { font-family: Arial; } // etc! ? obviously, once you have something like that running, you can just

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Sennan Lagaluga
: www.mockorange.com.auP: 07 4953 4035F: 07 4953 40301st Floor, 92 Victoria StreetMackay Q Australia 4740 - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy To: WSG List Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:31 PM Subject: [WSG] Dynamically populating

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
. -Original Message- From: Beau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets? You can do this with something like PHP, just a script that does something like this link rel=stylesheet type

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread James Ellis
Seona There are a number of ways to do this - the easiest way to do it is by populating some style tags dynamically from data in the db using a script language such as CF or PHP etc (although that can add pageweight). Another way would be to save a css file on the server for each person and

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 3:47 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets? you could use inline styles to pull the required value(s) from the database. eg: (background-color: % your.recordset.value %;) dynamically

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Lindsay Evans
Seona Bellamy wrote: Just to make sure I understand you, Beau, the php code you show is the content of that cssmaker.php that you put in the href? Not sure if I can duplicate that with CF - it's that header bit that is the biggest problem I guess. Does anyone know if there's a similar

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Beau
that header bit that is the biggest problem I guess. Does anyone know if there's a similar function in CF? Thanks, Seona. -Original Message- From: Beau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
, 10 March 2004 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets? Seona There are a number of ways to do this - the easiest way to do it is by populating some style tags dynamically from data in the db using a script language such as CF or PHP etc (although

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Blown
Seona You've got a few choices 1. As Beau mentions dynamically generate the style sheet. link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=cssmaker.php / 2. Adjust inline style dynamically from the database 3. Have a collection of style sheets that are themes, Zen Garden style. eg. link

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Seona You could assignment the stylesheet from a cookie with php variables. Leo * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Beau
Chris Blown said: 1. As Beau mentions dynamically generate the style sheet. link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=cssmaker.php / Not sure here, but method 1 might have caching issues, I've never tried this, so perhaps Beau can comment here. you might run into some caching issues here,