Template Switching with linklist, not dropdown menue

[snafu]

im successfully using PLUGIN_TEMPLATEDROPDOWN. for accessibility it is better to have big buttons instead of a dropdown list, whitch is difficult to use for people with motorical handicaps.

is there a way to pass the theme name inside the url?

i think about hard coded buttons, similar to this solution http://bifos-sommercamp.de/, which is done in wordpress. but i would like to have a serendipity template with good accessibility.

thanks!

[carl_galloway]

Snafu,

You're in luck, it can be done. I believe the template chooser needs to be installed, but you could make it hidden in the plugin configuration.

Then, using an html nugget or the link list, create a link like this

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http://www.your.url/index.php?template_chooser=themename

The themename is the name of the theme as it appears in the template chooser dropdown, in the options section. So if you wanted to include the new default theme, you would use 'carl_contest' instead of 'Serendipity v3.0'

Hope that helps,

Carl

[carl_galloway]

Snafu I have misled you in my previous post, the actual code you want is

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http://www.your.url/index.php?user_template=themename 

Sorry about that, I was typing too quickly and didn't pay attention,

Carl

[snafu]

http://www.your.url/index.php?user_template=themename

thanks a lot carl_galloway for your quick reaction, it works fine! now i'm going to write the different templates (big font, negative, simple text - only - display for screenreader...)

btw:
theme switching works not properly because of css cache in firefox and ie, discussed here:
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... +css+cache
i tried to solve this with brute force:

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<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">

works in ie, but firefox still chaching

so i named any css file of any used template different and modified css loading in index.tpl

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    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="templates/bg/style_bg.css" />

now i get my themes switched.