Can you imagine running a website with hundreds of pages off pure, static, html? Without a single bit of server-side code? No PHP, Perl, Ruby, or even SHTML? What about a site with hundreds of thousands of pages? or millions? Of course not. So why do you put up with static CSS files then?!
This article takes a look at the unused potential of dynamic CSS sheets and how they help.
Case Study: Shaun Inman's site with 33,306 CSS Sheets in use.
Other benefits:
Completely overhauled user experience
Faster sites
CSS-Contained browser detection
That's just some of the stuff you can do with something like that.
Article: Dynamic (PHP-Driven) CSS Stylesheets
Source: NeoSmart Technologies
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This post has been edited by Computer Guru: Oct 28 2006, 22:00
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Mostly Harmless...  Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016 
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| Post #2 Oct 28 2006, 21:52 | |
BlackBerry Fanatic Group: Registered Posts: 2,989 Joined: 9-April 06 From: Waterloo Region, ON Member No.: 162,889
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Wow. Now that is impressive.
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| Post #3 Oct 28 2006, 21:55 | |
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Mostly Harmless... Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016
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Thanks!
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| Post #4 Oct 28 2006, 21:55 | |
HPI Firestorm Group: Registered Posts: 2,378 Joined: 25-May 03 From: Glasgow Scotland Member No.: 29,122
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Bookmarked!! Gonna have a proper read over this tomoz before implementing some of its ideas
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Neowinian Super Cool   Group: Supervisor Posts: 18,488 Joined: 25-February 04 From: Wirral, UK Member No.: 48,788
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its a nice idea, but having a different stylesheet everyday could be confusing..
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Mostly Harmless... Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016
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^ Did you RTFA?
Because that's the point of the article - you no longer need to do that. With dynamic CSS it does it automatically for you. |
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Hello, I'm Jeremy  Group: Registered Posts: 893 Joined: 7-August 04 From: Michigan Member No.: 65,570
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it's nice for having different themes for your site. you can set a cookie and PHP will handle the rest based on the cookie
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| Post #8 Oct 28 2006, 22:55 | |
NeowinianČ  Group: Registered Posts: 211 Joined: 26-March 05 Member No.: 102,805
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Very handy! Of course, why didn't I think of this before? This is probably the perfect solution for those ugly CSS hacks for IE!
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Mostly Harmless... Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016
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It's just one of those things that are so obvious that no one thinks of them no matter how useful it might be IMO.
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Neowinian Super Cool Group: Supervisor Posts: 18,488 Joined: 25-February 04 From: Wirral, UK Member No.: 48,788
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Quote - (Computer Guru @ Oct 28 2006, 23:14) [snapback]587996306[/snapback] ^ Did you RTFA? Because that's the point of the article - you no longer need to do that. With dynamic CSS it does it automatically for you. Quote - (jtchange @ Oct 28 2006, 23:41) [snapback]587996373[/snapback] it's nice for having different themes for your site. you can set a cookie and PHP will handle the rest based on the cookie Thats what i meant  didnt think about the cookie thing though 
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Resident Elite  Group: Registered Posts: 1,407 Joined: 20-November 01 Member No.: 3,893
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I've done this before, so here's a handy tip: give your PHP'ed CSS file a .css extension and set PHP to interpret it via a .htaccess file. Now your techniques are a bit more covered plus it might avoid problems with older problems.
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Mostly Harmless... Group: Registered Posts: 2,258 Joined: 23-April 05 From: The Great Middle East Member No.: 107,016
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Quote - ' date='Oct 29 2006, 01:15' post='587996470'] Now your techniques are a bit more covered plus it might avoid problems with older problems.  Come again?.... Also, if you use the header() line mentioned in the article there is no need for css extension - it's just another MIME - esp. since only Apache has .htaccess. |
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URBANWARFARE / NE14HOCKEY / HOWZ-TRIX Group: Registered Posts: 1,567 Joined: 1-August 05 From: United Kingdom, Peterborough Member No.: 121,351
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Very neat idea
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Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,974 Joined: 2-August 04 From: SoCal, USA Member No.: 64,824
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Nice, never even thought of that. Oh, and I hope that guy that had 33,306 styles had those files automatically generated.
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Neowinian DOMINATING  Group: Registered Posts: 9,420 Joined: 24-April 05 Member No.: 107,134
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The part about serving useragent specific stylesheets, that is FLAWED! People can mask their UA so you DO NOT KNOW what browser it is using PHP. Stay with IF IE conditional comments for the hacks. Otherwise, the article is just rephrasing common sense.
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