Generating CSS files

newtonimaj

Hi,

I have a script who generate CSS files.

<? 
header('Cache-Control: public, no-cache, must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Content-type: text/css');
$GC=getGraphic();
$body_background=$GC->body_background;
$rep_fond=$GC->rep_fond;
?>
/* 	FEUILLE DE STYLES I-MAJ
	Style : MGR2
	Fichier : MGR2.css
	Date : 18-01-2005
	Solstys : PB
*/
/* GENERIQUE */
BODY { background-color: <?=$body_background?>; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR:#4D4D4D}
TD { FONT-SIZE: 11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
p { font-size:12px}
A{ COLOR:#1B598E; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif} 
A.noir { COLOR:#000000 } 
A.blanc { COLOR:#FFFFFF } 
A:hover { COLOR:#2884D7; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}

....
?>

This script is called by web pages

<html>
<header>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/css/graphics/getCss.php' type='text/css'>
...
</header>
....
</html>

It works fine with Firefox but it seams the file it is not always loaded with Internet Explorer.

There are no errors in my http logs.

Thank you for your help

rehfeld

can you elaborate on what you mean by
"not always loaded"

rehfeld

just noticed...
it might be because

this is not an html tag

...
</header>

newtonimaj

The css are not always interpreted.
The cells background and the fonts are not taken into account.

Norman_Graham

I agree with Rehfeld - the HTML tag is <head></head>, and not <header></header>. This would certainly cause a problem in most browsers.

Norm

newtonimaj

I agree with you.
In my code, its <head> </head>

Norman_Graham

Hi Newton

I've just noticed that you're pulling in the CSS in a file which isn't a CSS file. It's a PHP file. Will this work? I suspect not.

If you want to use PHP to generate the CSS, you certainly can. However, the PHP file should generate the CSS as part of the HTML. What you are doing is using HTML to pull in a PHP file which then generates the CSS. To the best of my knowledge this will not work using the <link> tag.

What I do is this: I put my PHP/CSS stuff in a separate file and then pull it in using include(). The CSS then becomes part of the HTML doc which is served to the client. If the user looks at the source code of the web page he's looking at, he'll see all the CSS within <style> tags. It is, however, dynamically generated depending on what browser is being used.

HTH

Norm