-- This is a very easy way to create a dynamically generated CSS file in PHP
--
-- The important parts of the code below:
-- 1. note that the PHP generated CSS file must start out with
-- header('Content-type: text/css');
--
-- 2. The file name should end in .php not .css , since this is a PHP file.
--
-- Why this works: when the CSS file is requested by the remote server, the
-- server sees the .php extension and preprocesses it before sending it to
-- the client browser. Since the PHP file sets the Content-type as text/css
-- the client browser treats it like a CSS file.
--
-- Code written by dbug13(Jamie Allison)
----- Begin Dynamic CSS file: base.css.php -----
<?php
header('Content-type: text/css');
// Try changing the variables below, and refresh your html file.
$bg_color = "purple";
$base_font="Verdana,Arial,sans";
?>
body{
font-family: <?php echo $base_font; ?>;
background-color: <?php echo $bg_color; ?>;
}
?>
----- End Dynamic CSS file
----- Begin HTML file that uses above CSS file: index.html -----
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<!-- Include the dynamic CSS file -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="base.css.php" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
<title>untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>
----- End HTML file -----