using PHP files as CSS?

Anon

Is it possible to link to a .php file instead of a .css file to act as a dynamically generated style sheet?

So:

Anon

Okay, I'm not a PHP guru so don't quote me on this, but couldn't you 'include' it as an external file. Make your CSS like you would be putting it in the HEAD area of your HTML document, and then cut and paste it into a new document and save it as css.php or something like that. Then, where you want it to go, add this code to the appropriate spot in the heading:

<?php
$inc_file = "/full/path/to/css.php";
include ($inc_file);
?>

Hope I didn't confuse you and it helps...

Anon

You can do it like that, just put this code inside the <head> tags on the HTML page:

However I would not recommend it... :<
I did it and unfortunately Internet Explorer (under Win98, IE 5.0, IE 5.5) hanged... Not on all machines but on few - with some specific configuration - every time...

After including the CSS file on the HTML page it worked fine.

Maybe the problem is that I linked the PHP file but specified the TYPE of the file as: "text/css"...
Maybe specifing it as "application/x-httpd-php" would fixed the bug?
Try this out.. if you will getting problems with IE just include the CSS, dont link it...

Anon

Ups.. sorry for the bug... but the script should converted it for me.. well I think I found a bug on PHPBuilder 🙂.

Anon

I'm reasonably suprised that no-one has mentioned Tim's excellent article on this very subject.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000821.php3

/Mike

Anon

The point was to link the php script as css file... not using PHP to generate CSS files..

However the article is interesting... 🙂

Anon

Thats probably why my browser hangs on some pages 🙁