Dynamically assigning a CSS file to a TPL file

[Cookie Jar]

I have a situation where I am trying to abstract away not only the
organization of the presentation (via TPL files) but also some of the
finer formatting features (via CSS).

So, for a particular request, I want to be able to select a specific
TPL file to render (easy enough), but I also want to indicate a
specific CSS file to use with the selected TPL.

Can this assignment be done dynamically, i.e. at runtime? I am hoping
I can pass the name of the CSS file to the TPL file, as any other
dynamically assigned tag, but I am unsure whether the TPL file would be
compiled before or after the CSS file would be assigned.

[petersprc]

Hi,

You can do this probably with include:

$smarty->assign('css', 'my.css');

{include file="$css"}

Cookie Jar wrote:

I have a situation where I am trying to abstract away not only the
organization of the presentation (via TPL files) but also some of the
finer formatting features (via CSS).

So, for a particular request, I want to be able to select a specific
TPL file to render (easy enough), but I also want to indicate a
specific CSS file to use with the selected TPL.

Can this assignment be done dynamically, i.e. at runtime? I am hoping
I can pass the name of the CSS file to the TPL file, as any other
dynamically assigned tag, but I am unsure whether the TPL file would be
compiled before or after the CSS file would be assigned.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Cookie Jar wrote:

I have a situation where I am trying to abstract away not only the
organization of the presentation (via TPL files) but also some of the
finer formatting features (via CSS).

So, for a particular request, I want to be able to select a specific
TPL file to render (easy enough), but I also want to indicate a
specific CSS file to use with the selected TPL.

Can this assignment be done dynamically, i.e. at runtime? I am hoping
I can pass the name of the CSS file to the TPL file, as any other
dynamically assigned tag, but I am unsure whether the TPL file would be
compiled before or after the CSS file would be assigned.

Not that bad. In your header, just add:

<link href="<?php echo $cssfile; ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Where $cssfile is the name of the css filename you wish to use.

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[Cookie Jar]

Thank you both. I was hoping I could do this, but just needed to be
sure the css file name didn't have to be hard coded.

Thanks! - cj

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

In your header, just add:

<link href="<?php echo $cssfile; ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

[Jerry Stuckle]

Cookie Jar wrote:

Thank you both. I was hoping I could do this, but just needed to be
sure the css file name didn't have to be hard coded.

Thanks! - cj

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>In your header, just add:

<link href="<?php echo $cssfile; ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

The browser is who requests the CSS file - the server doesn't even look
at the statement. And by the time it gets to the browser, there is no
way to distinguish statically from dynamically generated HTML. So no
problem.

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