Question

Say you have a css files loader style.php:

     <?php 
           header('Content-type: text/css'); 
           foreach(array('style1.css', 'style2.css', 'style3.css') as $f)
                 echo file_get_contents($f)
     ?>

Style1.css has 12KB, style2.css is 400kgs, and in the red corner obese style3.css weighting 800LBs is world champion at static resource bandwidth consumption!

I’m using style.php to combine the three files and send them to the client. I’m also using similar php files to send out JS resources, combined.

Is there some htaccess rule that I can tell to combine several static resources into a big one, and send that on-the-fly?

/EDIT:

This type of job CAN be handled by htaccess I’m sure I’ve read somewhere about server files included or something like that but I don’t remember where. And I’ve also seen free hosting services that put a custom header or banner regardless of what files you host there.

Answer 1

Eventually found what I was looking for. The thing was called Server-Side Includes (SSI).