I am working on a Wordpress theme and want to give the option to choose between a boxed layout and a full width layout.
For this purpose I created a variable in my header.php:
<head>
<?php
$isBoxedLayout = true;
?>
...
</head>
Down in the body I am asking if the variable is set:
<?php if($isBoxedLayout) { echo '<div id="boxed">'; } ?>
...
<?php if($isBoxedLayout) { echo '</div>'; } ?>
This works fine so far. But now I also want to change some css styles if this variable is set. My problem is that I am not so good in PHP yet so my solution would be something like this:
<head>
<?php
$isBoxedLayout = true;
?>
...
if ($isBoxedLayout) {
echo '<style type="text/css">';
echo '#container {width:999px;}';
echo '</style>';
}
</head>
But I think this is not good programming because my header.php file would soon be full of code and confusing if I would add some other options. So logically I should create a variable or an array maybe in the functions.php file and outsource my code like this:
$isBoxedLayout = true;
if ($isBoxedLayout) {
function boxed_css_styles() {
echo '<style type="text/css">';
echo '#container {width:999px;}';
echo '</style>';
}
}
Is my thinking right? And if so how would I access the functions I create in my index.php or header.php or whatever. Or would it work to print the styles in the functions.php?
best regards
