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This topic is about the FRONT office and about FRONT office skin switching.


Currently, when you use the skin switcher, the desired skin is stored in a cookie named xxx_evostate.


Note: This selection is saved in a cookie because it has to be persistent accross Sessions, even for non registered users. Thus, this is neither a Session variable nor a UserSetting. And this should stay that way!


The selected skin is applied to all blogs.


Some users want to be able to select a different skin for each blog.


We could enable this with a config switch.


In that case the xxxx_evostate cookie would store a little more than just the latest chosen skin name.


It would store the latest chosen skin name, followed by the last skins chosens for each blog.


Example: I am on blog #3 and just selected the guadeloupe skin.


The xxx_evosatet cookie sent would then contain:


skins=#2:custom;#3:guadeloupe;#5:originalB2

• when I switch to blog#2 it will display the custom skin.
• when I switch to blog#3 it will display the guadeloupe skin.
• when I switch to blog#4 it will not find a saved skin, so it will use default one for that blog.

please keep in mind, we may add other variables (not skin related) in the evostate cookie in the future.