Generating CSS through PHP

PHP module H118

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module H118. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in PHP, PHP Programming

PHP Programming - training course - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language

PHP Programming - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language This course covers the fundamentals of programming in PHP and Web-related issues ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/phfull.html [course]

Learning to program in PHP - training course - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language

Learning to program in PHP - Learn PHP, and its use as a Web-scripting language This course covers the fundamentals of programming in PHP and Web-related ...

http://www.wellho.net/course/pffull.html [course]

Using PHP to output images, XML, Style sheets, etc

PHP is usually used to generate a stream of HTML to be sent to the browser, but if you use the header function within your page you can use it to send ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/565_Usin ... s-etc.html [short article]

.css - using PHP to make dynamic style sheets

Did you know that you can use PHP to generate dynamic style sheets? If you look at the accessibility options on our new-look website, you'll find you ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/501_-css ... heets.html [short article]

Setting your colour theme through PHP

Although we usually think of PHP as a server side language concerned with databases and the driving of applications, it's also of great use in controlling ...

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/996_Sett ... h-PHP.html [short article]

MySQL content report with counts, in PHP using CSS

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=h118/revinf.php [code sample]

Selecting and applying CSS themes through PHP

http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=h118/west.html [code sample]

Cascading Style sheets allow you to keep the look and feel of your web pages in one file, while leaving the content to a .html page, or perhaps to a PHP page or a content management system. And you can change the look and feel of you web site just by changing you style sheet file. But what if you want your users to be able to change the style through which they see your site on the fly? You can use PHP to generate your style!

This topic is presented on public courses Learning to program in PHP, PHP Programming

Examples from our training material

dss.php	Dynamic Style sheet
httpd.hta	full demo - .htaccess file
index.php	full demo - top layer and main code file
page.htp	Full demo - template for display
picklet.php	Image library application using dynamic PHP style sheets
revinf.php	MySQL content report with counts, in PHP using CSS
stdsess.inc	Full demo - web helper functions
style.inc	Full demo - PHP to set style sheets
west.html	Selecting and applying CSS themes through PHP

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

Basic steps.
Configuring PHP to parse .css.
Mime Type text/css.
Dynamic input via GET, cookies and SERVER.
A worked example.
Caching issues.

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