Control Your CSS Via PHP - Good Stuff!
Posted on 23/5/07 by Tim Koschützki
Today I stumbled upon a cool article that explains how one can control one's CSS colors via PHP to form relative shades. How is this done I hear you asking? Just look at the following code:
$base = new CSS_Color('C9E3A6');
$highlight = new CSS_Color('746B8E');
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/* Use the base color, two shades darker */
background:#< ?= $base->bg['-2'] ?>;
/* Use the corresponding foreground color */
color:#< ?= $base->fg['-2'] ?>;
/* Use the highlight color as a border */
Note that we generate a CSS color object and then form lighter or darker shades of it using relativities. That could make generating cool design very easy. Just change the base color and with the relativities the entire design should change accordingly and still be eye-candy. Cool stuff isn't it? :)
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I think this is a very simple way to generate schemes and such - very handy tool.
However, i think it might be some overhead to generate this for every page request - so I would mix this with a cached file of your layout/colors (they don't need to be changed dynamically with each request, do they?).
Yes you are absolutely right. One should only use this to generate the css script and then go with it. Whenever you want to change it, you call the php tool again and then copy & paste it to your css file again.
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