Interesting article. :) Thanks. I might have to have a go at it later.

And as far as I am aware (unless my hosting provider has changed servers and
not told anyone) it is running on Apache.

Cheers,

Seona.

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From: James Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 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 that can add
pageweight). Another way would be to save a css file on the server for
each person and serve that up (ouch.. disk space).
Yet another (and the best) would be to send the User Agent a stylesheet,
as discussed over at the Sydney PHP Group (apologies for the crap
colours/layout - I'm working on it :D ).

Managing multiple sites under a single codebase
<http://sydney.ug.php.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70&start=0&postdays=0&posto
rder=asc&highlight=>
http://sydney.ug.php.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70

I'd assume you are using CF under Windoze Server so I'm not sure if that
has the flexibility an Apache config has?

Cheers
James



Seona Bellamy wrote:

>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
>information gets recorded in a database. That's the easy bit, and I can do
>that no problem. What I need then if that when a user navigates to a
>particular section, the system pulls these values from the database and
>populates the stylesheet with them so that the section displays in the
>requested colours and styles.
>
>If it makes any difference, I'm working in ColdFusion.
>
>Of course, if this is just a pipe dream then I'll just have to sit down and
>figure out another way around the problem. Id really prefer not to have to
>use the selection form as a way for account holders to email me their
>preferences so I can make them a new stylesheet if I can help it... :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Seona.
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