Re: Using PHP to Generate a CSS Style Sheet

on 04/03/03 5:37 PM, Phillip S. Baker (phillip@freewolf.net) wrote: > I would like to use PHP to make calls from a DB and generate a CSS file. > Anyone have any ideas on doing this? every day :) PHP is some kind of programming language which is PARSED by PHP. The result is a TEXT FILE of some description... yes, even a CSS file. How to do it depends entirely on your database structure and what you want to achieve. But a quick example: --- <? $textColour = 'FF9900'; // a var you retrieved from a DB $bgColour = 'white'; // a var you retrieved from a DB ?> P { color: #<?=$textColour?>; } BODY { background-color: #<?=$bgColour?>; } --- > Will php commands executre from a .css file or is there a different way to > do this?? .css files will not *automatically* be parsed by PHP, however you can force them through with either a .htaccess file, or by editing apache's httpd.conf file to suit. this is my .htaccess file: <Files dynamic.css> ForceType application/x-httpd-php </Files> Or, you can just include() some CSS generated by PHP directly into your PHP application, and it will just appear as part of the HTML source. Justin French