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copied!<p>I've been trying to wrap my head around a good way to do this, but so far have come up empty, and needed some guidance.</p> <p>Basically, what I have at the moment is a style selector, which gives 10 pre defined styles for the site that a user can choose from. Most of them are grotesque, and are merely proof of concept.</p> <p>This is controlled by PHP and mysql. When a user logs in, and slects a non-default style, it is added against their user record in the DB. The site then refreshes, and loads the selected style.</p> <p>It works really well, but now I want to try and have some granular control. For example, I would like users to be able to pick their own header background colour, heading text colour, sub heading colour and some font sizes.</p> <p>It is a fairly trivial thing, and if I can't find a way to implement it, then so be it.</p> <p>My initial thought was to have a table that has columns for each customizable part of the size, e.g. font size, colours etc. In the table, would be a record for each user. They then use some interface to pick and choose what they want, and then add it to the table.</p> <p>My issue, was then what to do with the values that I retrieve from the DB. I would have liked to insert them straight into a CSS file, but I don't think this is possible without some server configuration changes, that I couldnt get to work.</p> <p>So does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do this, if there is any way at all.</p> <p>Regards Eds</p>

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