Re: Parsing .css files with php: Cons? [message #176719 is a reply to message #176685] |
Thu, 19 January 2012 20:45 |
J. Frank Parnell
Messages: 12 Registered: January 2012
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On Jan 17, 4:32 am, Captain Paralytic <paul_laut...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 9:36 pm, "J. Frank Parnell" <jugl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> given: I know about @import and cascading styles, etc etc.
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>> Is is cool to parse .css files with php? Like I may want to include()
>> sections into an overall .css. Or i may want to do like color:#<?php
>> echo $thecolor; ?>. That kind of stuff.
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>> I guess there might be a little more overhead, but what's a few .css
>> files within a whole cms like wordpress? I'm just looking for gotchas
>> and unforseen problems.
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>> thanks,
>> j
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> I suspect a more normal way to do this would be to use php files to
> generate your css rather like you would use them to generate your
> html. So in the html sent to the browser you would have:
> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" charset="utf-8"
> href="http://www.example.com/dynamic_css.php?anyparms">
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> and dynamic_css.php would return the css.
ok, yeah, this would be my preferred way of the three suggestions
(thanks all!). Then, i suppose, I would need to set proper headers in
the php file? or maybe it would come thru fine by itself?
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