Re: Parsing .css files with php: Cons? [message #176725 is a reply to message #176719] |
Fri, 20 January 2012 10:07 |
Captain Paralytic
Messages: 204 Registered: September 2010
Karma:
|
Senior Member |
|
|
On Jan 19, 8:45 pm, "J. Frank Parnell" <jugl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
>>> given: I know about @import and cascading styles, etc etc.
>
>>> 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.
>
>>> 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.
>
>>> thanks,
>>> j
>
>> 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">
>
>> 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?
The latter
|
|
|