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TxFx.net

Oct 20 2003, 07:40 AM

I followed Domesticat's excellent skinning tutorial and am very happy with the result. But the problem I am having (and others too, I'd assume) is that the output of CGI scripts like mt-search.cgi and mt-comments.cgi can't be skinned using PHP because the output of CGI isn't sent on to the PHP parser. I'd like to use JavaScript to read the cookies baked with Domesticat's cookiecheck.php file:

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$total_skins = 14;
$default_skin = 1;

if (isset($_REQUEST['newskin'])) {
$newskin=(int)$_REQUEST['newskin'];
if ( ($newskin<1) OR ($newskin>$total_skins) ) $newskin=$default_skin;
} elseif (isset($_REQUEST['skin'])) {
$newskin=(int)$skin;
if ( ($skin<1) OR ($skin>$total_skins) ) $newskin=$default_skin;
} else $newskin=$default_skin;

$skin=$newskin;
setcookie ('skin', "", time() - 3600);
setcookie('skin',$newskin,time()+(86400*365),'/');
setcookie('skin',$newskin,time()+(86400*365),'/','.domesticat.net');
$skin=$newskin;

$headervar = "/path/to/your/site/html/nav/header";
$footervar = "/path/to/your/site/html/nav/footer";
$extension = ".php";
?>

Anyone have any idea what that would look like in Javascript?

ginakra

Oct 20 2003, 10:26 AM

I just skinned my comments pop ups and stuff yesterday. Head on over to this site and follow the directions. It's pretty easy, if you need help let me know. I think you could skin pretty much any mt cgi output with this, though I'm a newbie.

Hope that helps.

TxFx.net

Oct 20 2003, 04:01 PM

Awesome! I am muchly in your debt. It works perfectly, with one small bit of modification to match my css naming system (each skin's CSS has its own directory)

ginakra

Oct 20 2003, 07:18 PM

Glad to be of help

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