I have a few pages which I’d like to have the same background across, so I figured an external style sheet would be the way to go. However, the background changes depending on the time of day, so I had to mix some PHP into the CSS. So now I have a file, background.php:
<html>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-image: url('<?php echo (day() == 1 ? 'images/day_sheep.jpg'
: 'images/night_sheep.jpg'); ?>');
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-color: silver
}
a {text-decoration:none;}
a:link {color:#ff0000;}
a:visited {color:#0000FF;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
</style>
</html>
Which is being called from two different pages. One page works perfectly fine, but the other page completely broke when I added the line require_once 'background.php', by which I mean nothing displays at all anymore. The offending page is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Penelope's Conquests</title>
<?php require_once 'background.php'; ?>
<style type="text/css">
table {
margin: 10px;
margin-left: 50%;
margin-right: 50%;
padding: 12px;
border: 10px;
text-align: center;
background-color: #fffb40;
border-style: ridge;
border-collapse: separate;
border-color: #9c6ad6;
outline-style: inset;
}
td.cap {
text-transform: capitalize;
font-variant: small-caps;
}
td.str {
font-weight: bolder;
font-size: 1.4em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>To date, Queen Penelope has destroyed:<br /><br /></h2>
<?php
require_once 'victims.php';
require_once 'mysqlSheep.php';
echo '<table border="3"
frame="box"
cellpadding="5">
<caption>Penelope\'s Victims.</caption>
<tr><th>Victim</th><th>Times Zapped</th>';
$hits = mysql_query("
SELECT *
FROM victims
ORDER BY amount
");
if( $hits )
{
while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($hits) )
{
echo '<tr><td class="cap">'.$row['victim'].'</td>
<td>'.$row['amount'].'</td></tr>';
}
}
else
{
echo '<p>' . mysql_error() . '</p>';
}
echo '</tr></table><br /><br />';
echo '<table border="3"
frame="box"
cellpadding="5">
<caption>Button Clicks.</caption>
<tr><th>Hour of day</th><th>Times Clicked</th>';
$time = mysql_query("
SELECT *
FROM time
ORDER BY hits
");
while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($time) )
{
print "<tr><td class='str'>".$row['hour']."</td>";
print "<td>".$row['hits']."</td></tr>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Why doesn’t the page want to behave with the style sheet?
Ohhh, the issue is that the function day() is defined in a separate file, I forgot to move it over when I was reorganizing the site.