#2do THIS DOCUMENT STILL NEEDS WORK! ##### ### ## ### ######## ### ## ### ###TM ####### ####### ####### ######## ####### ####### ####### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ## ### ### ### ## ### ### ### ## ### ## ####### ####### ## ######## ### ####### ## ####### ##### ### ## ######## ### ### ## ### ##### CSS-INIT.. To use CSS-INIT, you basically need to pipe your css files through the php engine, which you can do in .htaccess like this.. SetHandler application/x-httpd-php Once that rule is in your .htaccess, Apache will use php to parse all files with a ".css" or ".style" extension. Excellent! Now we can have some fun! Firstly, you will need an array of values to work with, something that CSS-INIT can use to populate the values inside the style sheets. By default, that array is named 'site_scheme' (aka $site_scheme), which CSS- INIT would expect you to have already created and populated, e.g.. $site_scheme:: Array ( [name] => oranges [a_active] => #f1be23 [a_hover] => #664208 [a_visited] => #a96a04 [alink] => #d18207 [bg_color] => #fff7d1 [bg_img] => images/Orange-Grad.png [bg_img_attch] => fixed [cool_color] => #fbcc86 etc. ) The key names corresponding to the %%tokens%% used in your CSS, e.g.. .my-class { color: %%cool_color%%; } You also need to tell CSS-INIT where to look for modules and snippets. We do this with a simple array of paths, like so.. $site_config['css_modules_paths'] = array(); $site_config['css_modules_paths'][] = $site_config['root'].'/inc/css/modules'; $site_config['css_modules_paths'][] = $site_config['root'].'/inc/css/snippets'; $site_config['css_modules_paths'][] = $site_config['root'].'/blog/inc/themes/modules'; You can add as many paths as you like (normally there is only two). By the way, $site_config['root'] is simply my site's variable for $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], if that wasn't obvious. Paths are searched IN ORDER, and CSS-INIT uses the first module/snippet it finds, looks no further, so you can keep global /and/ localized styles, use modules from other installations, mix-and-match, whatever you like. CSS-INIT will also expect the $site_config array to have the following two values (switches).. $site_config['minify_css'] (boolean) $site_config['cache_styles'] (boolean) Obviously you can replace these, indeed the entire $site_config array with whatever you are using on your site, so long as you set the flags somehow! If you download a corzblog release, you can see a full implementation of CSS-INIT (it uses slightly different names for the arrays, so you can see how easy it is to plug it into some other CMS) with math expressions, scheme switching, dynamic tokens and *everything*! For more details, see the accompanying "about this folder.txt" documents scattered around the place! En-Joy!! ;o) (c) 2004->tomorrow! ~ cor + corz.org ;o) Please view the license for this free software, here: http://corz.org/free-scripts-licence.nfo