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[buster]

When you go to http://www.x-cart.com/shopping_cart_demo.html you have a choice to demo different schemes. It adds ?multiskin=skin# to the end of the url and you get the corresponding skin.

Are they using the Skin Swap mod? Or something else?

Thanks

[funkydunk]

been looking at that - they have a slightly modified version of the xcart there for the demo - this includes a session/cookie that sets the skin to use.

nice mod - shame they haven't released it

[jpsowin]

Isn't that false advertising?

[funkydunk]

be nice if this was the exact code that was released

[buster]

Would be nice... Even if it was an add-on (that way I know updates would work).

It would really solve the problem that I have with personalized pages.


Mabey it is unstable and that is why they haven't released it?

[jpsowin]

Mabey it is unstable and that is why they haven't released it?

I doubt that's the reason. No further comment on why I think that...

[funkydunk]

it wouldn't be unstable - just want to keep it to themselves maybe

come on rrf - how about releasing it???

[funkydunk]

promise we wouldn't tell anyone

[buster]

Ok.. so first off i'm not the php wiz (or smarty wiz at that) but I was/am screwing around with this.

What about going into smarty.php and putting in an if statement:

if( $HTTP_GET_VARS['skin'] == 2){
	$smarty->template_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin2";
	$smarty->compile_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."templates2_c";
	$smarty->config_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin2";
	$smarty->cache_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."cache2";
	$smarty->secure_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin2";
	$smarty->debug_tpl="file:debug_templates.tpl";
} else {
	$smarty->template_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin1";
	$smarty->compile_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."templates_c";
	$smarty->config_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin1";
	$smarty->cache_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."cache";
	$smarty->secure_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin1";
	$smarty->debug_tpl="file:debug_templates.tpl";
}

And

if( $HTTP_GET_VARS['skin'] == 2){
	$smarty->assign("ImagesDir","../skin2/images");
	$smarty->assign("SkinDir","../skin2");
} else {
	$smarty->assign("ImagesDir","../skin1/images");
	$smarty->assign("SkinDir","../skin1");
}

It seems to work, but I know 0 (<-- thats a zero) about cookies.

Will this break anything???


[Edit] I guess it would help if i finish a thought.

I know 0 about putting this in a cookie, so the url doesn't always have ?skin=# in it
[/Edit]

[buster]

Ok.. I'm about to go home from work and wont be able to play with this for awhile but:

if( $HTTP_GET_VARS['skin']){
	setcookie('skin', $HTTP_GET_VARS['skin']);
	}

if(( $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['skin'] == 2) || ( $HTTP_GET_VARS['skin'] == 2)){
	$smarty->template_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin2";
	$smarty->compile_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."templates2_c";
	$smarty->config_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin2";
	$smarty->cache_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."cache2";
	$smarty->secure_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin2";
	$smarty->debug_tpl="file:debug_templates.tpl";
	$smarty->assign("ImagesDir","../skin2/images");
	$smarty->assign("SkinDir","../skin2");
} else {
	$smarty->template_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin1";
	$smarty->compile_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."templates_c";
	$smarty->config_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin1";
	$smarty->cache_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."cache";
	$smarty->secure_dir = BASEDIR.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."skin1";
	$smarty->debug_tpl="file:debug_templates.tpl";
	$smarty->assign("ImagesDir","../skin1/images");
	$smarty->assign("SkinDir","../skin1");
}	

Not being a php guru is there a way to use a switch statement to make this cleaner/add more skins easier?

Also, there is the problem of switching back to the 1st skin, when the cookie is set to skin2 and you put a ?skin=1, the cookie is updated but skin2 shoews till you hit refresh because of :

if(( $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['skin'] == 2) || ( $HTTP_GET_VARS['skin'] == 2)){

I assume it reads the cookie (2) before it sets the cookie (1)? Or it reads the cookie (2) caches the value then the page runs?
Again, this just shows how little I know of php.


Going to do some looking, but any help is apprecieated.