Question

I am going to start on a website whose requirement is to change the color scheme after every 2 weeks.

I am looking for a dynamic solution to change colours and somewhat structure of a website using css & php.

One solution which i can see is using dynamic css method for example

<?php
header("content-type: text/css");
$mencolour = "#ff0000";
echo 'h1 {color:$menucolor}
?>

Other solution is using some php classes to do the same task.
such as one is available on phpclasses website.
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6482-PHP-Parse-and-process-Leaner-CSS-files.html

Is there any other better way of doing this? if any one has used above two methods, what could be drawbacks of using them.

Need some expert opinions 🙂

Answer 1

Sass is a popular CSS pre-processor that, among other things, lets you use variables in CSS, for things like your color scheme. You’d compile the CSS when you change it, so no need for the overhead of running a PHP script each time it loads. (Yeah, you could write your own cache system for that in PHP, but no need to redo others’ hard work ;D)

$menu-color: #123456;

#menu { color: $menu-color; }