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I was just presented with a new problem I’ve never considered before which is how to handle the caching of CSS on a users browsers.  Some of the more creative solutions we’ve come up with are an .htaccess solution which will rename our style.css to style1.css style2.css based on what we set in the config and the one I like the most which is, if the boss doesn’t notice, it’s not a problem.

Anyone able to shed some light on this?

<?php
$timestamp = time();
?>
../style.css?<?=$timestamp?>

haha ... so fitting that the next post is ‘if i only had a brain’

haha ... so fitting that the next post is ‘if i only had a brain’

only thing is this will refresh everytime ... so just added:

define(‘STYLE_V’,2);

style.css?<?=STYLE_V?>

The following article is about .js but it presents some interesting caching strategies.

http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast

I would look into learning how to control cache headers sent by Apache, since Apache is the one serving the CSS.