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Loading CSS With PHP Extension From Within Controller - El Forum - 09-28-2011
[eluser]J. Pavel Espinal[/eluser]
Hello Folks,
I ran into a situation where I wanted to load a dinamyc generated CSS.
After some wrestling with the code, I got to this solution:
Note: it is not the best solution, maybe not even a good one, but it worked.
1. I created a CSS controller that will handle the file name (and, in a future, compression, if you want)
css.php file (CSS loader)
Code:
class Css extends CI_Controller {
/**
* Class Constructor
*/
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}
/**
* Default Index
*
* @return string
*/
public function index() {
return '';
}
/**
* Css Loader
*
* @param string $asFileName
*/
public function load($asFileName='') {
if(empty($asFileName)) {
return;
}
$lsFileExt = pathinfo($asFileName, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
if($lsFileExt != 'css') {
log_message('error', 'There was an attept to load a non css file');
return;
}
header('Content-Type: text/css');
$this->load->view('css/' . $asFileName . '.php');
}
}2. Now, in your view, you could use something like:
Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?=site_url('css/load/screen.css')?>" type="text/css" media="screen" title="default" />In the previous example, my css file is called: screen.css.php, and is located at [views]/css/
Note that the "header('Content-Type: text/css');" part is essential.
I hope this helps someone
Regards,