Can you have php in a css file ?

[madspof]

Hi everyone i was just designing a website and was wondering if you could run php in a .css file is it possible ?

 

Thanks before hand

madspof

[dropfaith]

just put css in a php file the reads as css

 

Use the header function:

header('Content-type: text/css');

 

Then name include your css file:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css.php" />

[GingerRobot]

Well, not exactly. You could rename your css file with a PHP extension and have it echo out the css. However, you would then lose the benefit of allowing the browser to cache the css file which reduces bandwidth usage and load times. The real question is why would you want to?

[dropfaith]

true the need for this is odd i havent seen a reason yet either but thats the only option i forsee if someone really wanted to do it

[GingerRobot]

It's more than likely that a better solution would to have mutliple stylesheets and have PHP determine which stylesheet to load.

[madspof]

Ah right it was just a general wonder if it was possible, am sure i could find a use for it somwhere lol anyway thanks guys

[xoligy]

Yes it possible i found some code on the internet that interested me which was protecting the css file as a php file here is the site infact

 

http://www.n1studios.net/tutorials/php/css-file-protection.html

[dropfaith]

still has the down side gingerrobot mentioned on cache like the header option

[xoligy]

caching dont really bother me, why would you want to? a little more security? imagine you spend hrs changing a layout to make it more personal then someone comes along and in 2 seconds copies the work you spent hours doing so they can have a design more or less the same only things they have possibly changed? the icons kinda sucks lol

[dropfaith]

true but im sure theres ways around that without too much effort.

[ranjuvs]

Actually there is an use for this.

 

We could dynamically load properties from a config file. For changing the theme and all we could use this.

[xoligy]

maybe there are ways around it if you know the name of the session i dunno lol i just like the fact if they try and view it they get a nice message

[CroNiX]

Actually there is an use for this.

 

We could dynamically load properties from a config file. For changing the theme and all we could use this.

You can use javascript as well for adjusting properties