Comments on: Processing PHP Code in CSS files to Improve Productivity and Browser Cross-Compatibility (using Apache)

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:39:56 +0000

@gleapsite I think you’re talking about short tags and they’re ba-ba-bad. Turn them off and don’t use them! I went through a phase of using them and I also went through a phase of regretting it.

More: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/200640/are-php-short-tags-acceptable-to-use

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:37:58 +0000

@Mark, that’s true. It’s not necessary anymore. No modern browser cares about the extension of a stylesheet file.

By: gleapsite

gleapsite — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:28:25 +0000

Your blog software ate my php tags. so I’ma try and use parens instead.

(php $background ?)
is the same as
(php echo $background; ?)

By: gleapsite

gleapsite — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:26:53 +0000

As a way to improve readability… instead of
background:;

Just use

background:;

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:17:22 +0000

I don’t think you need to serve the PHP with a .css extension. As long as the headers in the php are “text/css” and the file is linked from the HTML correctly (type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”) then everything should work ok.