Using different stylesheets + generating HTML in PHP (how to)?

#1 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008

I have spent the last few days trying to create a tableless web page,
using CSS only for layout. I have finally given up. My current css file
works fine for IE - but looks terrible in Netsacpe and Firefox. if I fix
the issue so that it works for Netscape/Firefox, then the page looks
like crap in IE.

I have finally decided to use two different style sheets (one is a minor
modification of teh other),l and generate the HTML page dynamically =-
and use a link to the appropriate stylesheet - depending on the UA
(browser) making teh request for the page.

The (simplified) logic is something like this :

$user_agent = get_user_agent();
if ($user_agent == IEXPLORER)
generate_Iexplorer_page();
else
generate_mozilla_page();

I am new to PHP (I'm a C++ programmer), so I would appreciate it if
someone could show me how to do the following:

1). Write a function to determine the UA (user agent - i.e. browser) type
2). generate html page with the appropriate css file link.

For the purposes for the code snippet, you can assume that the (path)
names of the css files are :

.../mozilla.css (css for mozilla browsers)
.../explorer.css (css for Iexplorer browsers)

Also please assume that the HTML page to be genrated consists of teh ff
simple HTML:

<html>
<head>
<title>This is a test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="xxx.css" />
</head>
<body>Some text goes here ...</body>
</html>

#2 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008

> I am new to PHP (I'm a C++ programmer), so I would appreciate it if
> someone could show me how to do the following:

> 1). Write a function to determine the UA (user agent - i.e. browser) type

somethin like
$cssfile = (stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT','msie'))?'ie.css':'ff.css';

> 2). generate html page with the appropriate css file link.

> <html>
> <head>
> <title>This is a test</title>

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

> </head>
> <body>Some text goes here ...</body>
> </html>

#3 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

Floortje wrote:

> > I am new to PHP (I'm a C++ programmer), so I would appreciate it if
>
>> someone could show me how to do the following:
>
>
>
>
>> 1). Write a function to determine the UA (user agent - i.e. browser) type
>
>
> somethin like
> $cssfile = (stristr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT','msie'))?'ie.css':'ff.css';
>
>
>> 2). generate html page with the appropriate css file link.
>
>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>This is a test</title>
>
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo $cssfile; ?>" />
>
>
>> </head>
>> <body>Some text goes here ...</body>
>> </html>

Cool - thanks very much !

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