<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title> Parse a file contents </title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="book.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="HTML_CSS Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="ch05.html" title= "Chapter 5. Parsing data sources" /> <link rel="prev" href="ch05s02.html" title="Parse a simple string" /> <link rel="next" href="ch05s04.html" title="Parse multi data sources " /> <style type="text/css"> /*<![CDATA[*/ body { background-color: white; color: black; } :link { color: #0000FF } :visited { color: #840084 } :active { color: #0000FF } div.c3 {margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;} div.c2 {font-family: monospace;} h2.c1 {clear: both} /*]]>*/ </style> </head> <body> <table class="htmlcssHeader"> <tr> <td> <img src="img/pearsmall.gif" align="left" alt="PEAR logo" /> <h1> HTML_CSS : The Definitive Guide </h1> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center"> Parse a file contents </th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"> <a accesskey="p" href="ch05s02.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center"> Chapter 5. Parsing data sources </th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch05s04.html">Next</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div><br /> <br /> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <h2 class="title c1"> <a name="developers.parse.file" id="developers.parse.file"></a>Parse a file contents </h2> </div> <p> Another quick way to create multiple selector definitions in one step is to use the <code class="methodname">HTML_CSS::parseFile()</code> function. CSS file to load is supposed to be W3C/CSS compliant. </p> <p> If previous selector definitions was into a file named 'styles.css', then to parse and load contents will be done with such script : </p> <div class="php c2"> <ol> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="kw2"><?php</span> </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="kw1">require_once</span> <span class= "st0">'HTML/CSS.php'</span>; </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="re0">$css</span> = <span class="kw2">new</span> HTML_CSS<span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>; </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="re0">$css</span>-><span class= "me1">parseFile</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class= "st0">'styles.css'</span><span class="br0">)</span>; </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="re0">$css</span>-><span class= "me1">display</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class= "br0">)</span>; </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="kw2">?></span> </div> </li> </ol> </div> <div class="tip c3"> <table border="0" summary="Tip"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="48"> <img alt="[Tip]" src="img/admons/tip.png" /> </td> <th align="left"> Tip </th> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> If there are duplicate definitions into file contents, you should parse file with call : <div class="php c2"> <ol> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="kw2"><?php</span> </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="re0">$css</span>-><span class= "me1">parseFile</span><span class= "br0">(</span><span class="st0">'styles.css'</span>, <span class="kw2">true</span><span class="br0">)</span>; </div> </li> <li class="li1"> <div class="de1"> <span class="kw2">?></span> </div> </li> </ol> </div>We will see next why we may find such duplicate definitions. </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <table class="htmlcssFooter"> <tr> <td align="left"> HTML_CSS : The Definitive Guide </td> <td align="right"> v 1.1.3 : February 18, 2007 </td> </tr> </table> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"> <a accesskey="p" href="ch05s02.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="ch05.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch05s04.html">Next</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> Parse a simple string </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Parse multi data sources </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>