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By Bertrand Potier<\/div>\n
on November 24, 2002<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Introduction<\/h2>\n
CSS Stylesheets are a major improvement in the World Wide Web, allowing HTML
\nto come back to its roots: a language to structure and publish content on the
\nweb, not to apply a visual formatting to that content. Unfortunately HTML and
\nCSS have the same limitations: both are static languages!<\/div>\n
\nFrom Perl scripts to PHP, a lot of technologies are today available to move HTML to the dynamic
\nage but why not, going even further and do the same with CSS? That’s what I did
\nwhen developing eDContainer<\/a> (a container for web sites and web applications),
\nhaving the following objectives in mind: <\/div>\n
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  1. To provide an external, user-friendly, visual configuration file: the user
    \n doesn’t have to edit the stylesheet, he may not be familiar with CSS and even
    \n if so, properly editing a stylesheet requires some experience. <\/li>\n
  2. To not have to repeat general identical values like fonts and colors x
    \n times within the stylesheet: the value is defined once in the visual
    \n configuration file and inserted automatically by PHP in the different
    \n locations within the stylesheet.<\/li>\n
  3. To provide a solution to the implementation of skins or themes (similar to
    \n Winamp or Windows XP principles): several different visual configurations can
    \n be defined and dynamically switching from one to the other is possible. <\/li>\n
  4. To be able to change some style behaviors dynamically, depending on some
    \n configuration values. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
    If you’re quite familiar with PHP and CSS, reading the above objectives will
    \nprobably make you already think about some solutions to achieve them. That’s the
    \nfun about coding, always different and sometimes better ways to obtain the same
    \nresults! When writing this article, I’m not saying that what is described here
    \nis the only way to do it. It’s a way and I hope I’ll manage to keep you
    \ninterested: Let’s start! <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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