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Generating CSS dynamically with PHP

29-Apr-2005

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management

Managing stylesheets within a CMS presents ongoing challenges for developers and designers. Most Web CMS packages offer few-to-no facilities for managing and integrating CSS files, let alone individual style elements. So the clever developer often has to resort to extensions. Here's some simple tricks from Digital Web Magazine for generating a dynamic stylesheet using PHP -- though you could use any scripting language. The downside? As pointed out in the comments, dynamic generation means you lose CSS file caching, and that means slower performance...

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