Need help on including custom frontend.css inside view.php

[Olli]

hello everybody,

i am in need of assistance for a special situation:

i need to specifiy a different CSS-file that needs to be loaded instead of the frontend.css.

reason for this is simple: i would like to parse the CSS-file with PHP so the css file is called 'frontend.php' and not 'frontend.css'.

do you know a quick workaround to alter the filename for 'frontend.css' inside the view.php of a module?

thank you very much to all
olli

[Ruud]

That is not possible. The frontend.css is included by the WB core functions.

What you can do is not using the frontend.css (rename/delete it) but use your own styling in the template css.
In the template it is not a big problem to include .php files as stylesheets.

[Olli]

hmm, i inspected the core files today and saw the filenames are fixed inside the frontend-functions-file... too bad...
i thought about overwriting a function somehow first inside the view.php, but i saw this stuff is not part of any function and the function calls take place before the template gets loaded.

i wanted to keep it the most flexible and be able to switch it all from the module 'view.php' without taking care of the template...

but i guess i am going to fix it the way you suggested ruud.

btw.: have you tried this PHP script?
http://www.conditional-css.com/advanced
the script checks the user-agent string and you are able to fix tricky CSS behauviour on complex sites easily.

all the best,
olli