How to Speed up your coding.

Here is an idea I thought would be useful for Themeforest Authors.
So when coding your template why not use a simple trick to make it easier for you?

<?php header('content-type:text/css');
header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", (time()+900)) . " GMT"); 
/* Company Colours */ 
$blue='#ccc';
$green='#363';
$lgreen='#cfc';
?>

body {
    background: <?php echo $green; ?>;
}

div {
    width:500px;
    height:250px;
    background: <?php echo $blue ?>;
}

What do you think?

hehe can we make a style switcher from that ?

I’ve been using dynamic CSS with PHP for years… I’m not sure whether it speeds production or not… but I agree it is a useful way to make a style switcher…

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http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/supercharge-your-css-with-php-under-the-hood/

How to speed up your coding: Take ritalin Drink more coffee.

There are also other tools to speed up coding like using a text expander or using zen coding. I already use zen and it’s fast+fun.

And if we talk about dynamic CSS , php is good but not designed for the purpose, while Compass is, as far as I know.

Can we use this for Site Templates if we make a good documentation explaining this?

Can we use this for Site Templates if we make a good documentation explaining this?

I’ve got it in one of mine… I don’t see why not… it’s going to have to include a PHP file and anybody purchasing it would have to know a little PHP … but that’s pretty much the same that goes for all the Wordpress files sold here….

I normally have a main stylesheet and seperate stylesheets for each of the colour variations and then just echo in the stylesheet the user has selected. Less work for me and the server.