Comments on: Dynamic (PHP-Driven) CSS Style-Sheets & Web Design

By: narun

narun — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:21:57 +0000

How can i get it to use?

By: Albany Web Design

Albany Web Design — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:40:52 +0000

Without a doubt it’s the way to go.

I setup all my php apps to to output all the neccesary js and css for the website. I use the MVC design pattern and the app gets all the files in the css and javascipt folders and combine them into one css file and one js file which are called using an html tag.

These single files and the web page are then minimized by YUI compressor, obfuscated by YUI and gzipped before being sent out.

Both returned files get page specific css and JavaScript by getting all the views in the folder css/pageName or js/pageName.

As you can see this solves the problem of designers having problems adding their js and styles because they just have to know to drop them in the appropriate folder.

The only js and css that is in the page is dynamically generated css/js for js/css/php interaction.

Being able to do it this way it increases page load time, organization of files, and decreases file requests on the server. Finally the output pages are cached for even more performance!

Now why would anyone not want to do this?

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njzrkkblöøgen | Stylesheets — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:51:57 +0000

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By: Eric Hill

Eric Hill — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:57:02 +0000

One of my pet peeves with CSS has been that it doesn’t allow variables or true inheritence. Of course these can be achieved as you described, by using PHP. But why don’t we just update the CSS standards? Let’s turn CSS into it’s own language!!!

By: fens

fens — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:05:03 +0000

This idea is fairly old. The only reason most people dont use it is that CSS has great degree of flexibility already.

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:01:59 +0000

That’s certainly a good idea: some kind of framework/template system with all the PHP work already done – just need to fill in the blanks (or use a wizard).

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:35:55 +0000

I think if you view this kind of idea as an extension of CSS rather than mixing up of the MVC then it’s nicer. It would be useful if there were some way to limit the functionaity that was availabe to the designers so as to reduce the percived learning curve.

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By: Not Really

Not Really — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:39:23 +0000

That’s hardly fair – if there is a programmer/designer working on it now, then the company/organization/site would be at fault for replacing him with a pure design, pure code team.

The *real* trend at the moment is seperating _display_ from _content_ and this doesn’t violate any of that. This actually takes it to the next level. This PHP code isn’t content, it’s control!