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rvm_css (v1.2)
This plugin automatically stores a copy of your style sheet(s) as a static file. Static files are served several orders of magnitude faster than PHP files (200 times faster, in my own tests on a FastCGI-based server).
I originally wrote this plugin for a website that had two style sheets for every page (one for printing) and the built-in method of serving both style sheets cost as much CPU time and memory as serving the page itself. The server load for this website was reduced by 50% after using this plugin.
Changelog:
- version 0.1 (2007-06-11) [never released]
- version 0.2 (2008-01-01)
- file name sanitized
- deleting a style sheet deletes the corresponding static file
- degrade gracefully if static file cannot be stored or read
- save style sheet in all situations (not just when saving an existing raw css file)
- version 0.3 (2008-01-02)
- return stylesheet url when format attribute is not set to ‘link’ (didn’t work before)
- do not force the use of ‘default’ style sheet on 404 error page
- version 0.4 (2008-12-20)
- use correct CSS content when copying or saving a new style sheet (thanks Maniqui/Julián)
- version 0.5 (2009-12-19)
- compatible with future versions of TXP that may not use base64 encoding anymore when storing the style sheet in the database.
- version 0.6 (2010-11-11)
- force 644 permissions on static CSS files
- cleanup prefs after plugin removal
- support the ‘name’ attribute (TXP 4.3+), but keep support for the ‘n’ attribute (TXP 4.2 and lower)
- version 0.7 (2011-11-19)
- fixed ‘undefined constant txp_version’ error (thanks Bloke and wet)
- version 0.8 (2011-12-19)
- support for less syntax added (read the plugin help, because this does require you to manually install the less.inc.php file… unless someone packages it as an add-on plugin)
- version 0.9 (2012-04-07)
- improve support for less syntax when hosting it on a windows server (thanks redbot and Bloke).
- version 1.0 (2013-02-28)
- compress output when using “less” (thanks qrayg)
- support multiple css files in one rvm_css call. This doesn’t concatenate (that’s not possible), but by doing so it keeps working as a drop-in replacement for the standard TXP css tag.
- version 1.1 (2016-02-07)
- compatible to TXP 4.6
- version 1.2 (2018-03-25)
- compatible with TXP4.7, including multi-theme support
- include textpack translations
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
Genius. Nice one, Ruud. I wonder if stm_javascript can be given the same treatment?
Last edited by Bloke (2008-01-01 20:36:24)
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
beautious! will test this out when i can. but this is definitely gonna be another staple for my txp installations.
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
Oh sorted Ruud. :)
Last edited by thebombsite (2008-01-02 03:36:24)
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#6 2008-01-02 04:24:40
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
fantastic
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
Thanks for this Rudd… but having a small problem getting it to work with a template by Reid…
Plugin is installed, activated, and the css files have been created.
This is what is currently in the page head referring to css:
bc..
<style type=“text/css” media=“screen”>
@import url(“<txp:css n=“grs1_primary” />”);
</style>
<txp:hide> —————————————————————————————-
Conditional comment to serve style sheet to IE 6.0 and under
————————————————————————————— </txp:hide>
<!—[if lt IE 7]>
<style type=“text/css” media=“screen”>
@import url(“<txp:css n=“grs1_ie” />”);
</style>
<![endif]—>
Simply replacing the <txp:css with your tag doesn’t work – I end up with no css being used at all.
Can you explain what I’m doing wrong?
Many thanks
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
Can you send me the tag trace + the rest of the generated HTML code for that page by email?
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
Will do Rudd, thanks.
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
Fantastic plugin! Thanks Ruud. Any chance of expanding this to the JS files in stm_javascript?
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
BTW – does not work in error_default pages. I had this which did not work:
<!-- CSS -->
<txp:rvm_css format="link" n="default" />
<txp:rvm_css format="link" n="menu" />Changed it back to:
<!-- CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<txp:css n="default"/>" type="text/css" />
<txp:css format="link" n="menu" />Works again.
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Re: rvm_css (v1.2)
How does it not work? What URL do you see for the style sheet in the HTML code?
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