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    <p>As someone who uses php quite a bit and has been using Sass for a few months:</p> <ol> <li>What is the value of using SASS or LESS over Php?</li> </ol> <p>In these pre-processors, all the work has already been done for you. You could feasibly achieve the same goals using php you wrote yourself, but it would be a waste of time. Months, perhaps even years, of work, testing and evaluation have gone into Sass and Less, to name two. Why duplicate that work?</p> <p>Many IDE's already support syntax-highlighting for .scss files, for example, making it easier to read and write the code.</p> <p>You don't need a server to run Sass or Less, making them quite portable. Sass does require Ruby, but Less only requires javascript, ie: it will run anywhere.</p> <p>Using something like Sass will make you think in a very structured way about your css, and encourage some good habits.</p> <ol> <li>If I were to use SASS or LESS, what's the best way to integrate values from the database?</li> </ol> <p>I've never done anything like that, but here's how I might approach it. Have a table in the database dedicated to storing the variables, start off with just an id, a class-name, and a value stored as a text string, be it a measurement, a hex colour, whatever you need.</p> <p>Whenever you add a new definition to the table, have a script run which updates a .scss file (if you're using Sass), called something like db_values.scss Simply write in text which lists a big bunch of variables and their values, in the syntax required by the preprocessor.</p> <p>In your main pre-processor file, import this generated file, it won't give you bloated style-sheets, the resulting css will only use the variables it needs.</p>
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    1. COFrom the database, you're saying grab the values with Php or another to write to the scss file, right? Indeed, I'll probably stick with LESS. As for now, I still need to grab user defined styles from the database, so the slightest bit if Php will do for now. Looking forward to delving into it. Thanks!
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