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    <p>CSS preprocessors like SASS and LESS give you much more than just serving a PHP (or any other server side language) file with dynamic code, served with a <code>content-type:text/css</code></p> <p>They give you: </p> <ul> <li><strong>Mixins</strong> – Classes for classes.</li> <li><strong>Parametric mixins</strong> – Classes to which you can pass parameters, like functions.</li> <li><strong>Nested Rules</strong> – Classes within classes, which cut down on repetitive code.</li> <li><strong>Operations</strong> – Math within CSS.</li> <li><strong>Color functions</strong> – Edit your colors.</li> <li><strong>Namespaces</strong> – Groups of styles that can be called by references.</li> <li><strong>Scope</strong> – Make local changes to styles.</li> <li><strong>JavaScript evaluation</strong> – JavaScript expressions evaluated in CSS.</li> </ul> <p>To do all that in PHP by yourself would be a fair effort!</p> <p>Regarding getting data from a database and using it in your SASS / LESS, it's not something that preprocessors would allow you to do out of the box. You could write your own PHP code that would read from a database, collect the information and values you need, and then write a SASS or LESS file to the filesystem using these values. You could just write a normal CSS file too if you don't need the features above that preprocessors give you.</p>
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    1. COCool, thanks for the thorough answer. Yes, I'm pretty sure Php can accomplish all that, and there's plenty of classes that do accomplish it. However, at the moment, I sure don't have the need. Aside from that, better to use the right language/code for the designed purpose. Appreciate it!
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    2. COThat's the problem, and what I'm getting at. Sass and LESS are amazing because they've focused on CSS implemenation. But as far as I can tell, and if they are processed by js/php/ruby, they can never be more powerful than them. I'm still befuddled as to why, rather the writing the code to interpret the css preporcessor, just make libraries/classes/functions to work with the language itself - js/php/ruby? There's already classes to work with colors, operations, namespaces, scopes and js evaluation - and are everyday commonplace functionality. Not to mention they have far more power.
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    3. COPhp/js naturally integrate with everything else, in case you wanted css to be modified based on referring site, day/time, etc, rather than modifying inline styles or switching entire stylesheets. Images can be written directly into the css as needed. Database values worked with. Regex. If the evaluation was done server side, bypassing LESS/Sass and using just Php/js/ruby would save resources. Some good articles exemplifying: net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/supercharge-your-css-with-php-under-the-hood colors: barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor, another: fwebde.com/css/php-dynamic-css
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