UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Insert different masthead images per style

How would I go about inserting a custom header per style.
I know we have the html includes. But if I allow several styles for the users to select some images look bad depending on the style a user selects.
My thinking is somehow to use the styles editor but I am not sure how to go about it.
Say I have imagemap1 for a header it looks okay for stock but not for the dark style. So how would I display imagemap1 for stock and imagemap2 for dark.

General -- HTML Includes -- at the top, insert:

This is common to all

in the extra css for EACH style, insert:


this gives a clickable image at the upper left corner for each style..

things you might vary:

• size (css)
• location (css - top center, top right, .. whateva)
• site name (duh)
• badabing.png (for each style, diff logo)

keep in mind that there are 100 ways to do it, so this is just one

note: i created a directory under images called 'logos' just for this on my site(s)

also note: you may just get by with 2 logos.. yoursitelite.png & yoursitedark.png. in that case, each dark style's 'badabing.png' would be yoursitedark.png and the others would use yoursitelite.png

i do it with php

from the HTML Includes
include ('/home/domains/mysite.co.uk/forums/_headers/main.inc.php');

Then add each colored header *.jpg
to the css of each style.

Trust me its complicated.

So if you have 5 styles.
That's 5 images to create. (Normal)
But then 5 x 5 for each style and image.

The trick is this : which i didn't think could be done.
Rick pointed me in the right direction ages ago.

Thanks I think I will try Sirdude's method first since it looks like the most simplistic. And easy to keep track of.

It works perfect. Now just need to clean up some images.

congrats! :rawk:

Yep and what I really like it is all stored in the style and config file so I don't have to screw with it for updates.

I forgot to say mines more complicated as i have titles
changing depending on dates / times too,

for example the Christmas period.

SD works a treat too

Yea I figured that when I saw the day value.
I might try that in the future when I get a library of mastheads built.