Skin/Theme Implementation Method

[eluser]-Gareth[/eluser]
Hello,

I was just wondering what method would be best to implement a user-choosable skin/theme into an application.

An easy way would be to just put the folders I have now into a folder (one level deeper than views) and then when I load a view I can just stick the folder/skin name and all would be good.

However, I'd like to have the skins folder outside of the application folder (I have also moved the application folder out of the system folder, too), so it would be like:

- Root Dir
- -- Application
- -- Skins
- -- System
- -- Uploads
- -- User Guide

For example...

How would I go about doing something like that?

Thanks.