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Get a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) inline style from a PHP array.

use Jstewmc\GetStyle;

// define your styles
$styles = [
    // the asterisk is a special name for global style declarations
    '*' => [
        'color'     => 'red',
        'font-size' => 'small'
    ],
    'foo' => [
        'color'     => 'blue',
        'font-size' => 'medium'
    ],
    'bar' => [
        'color'     => 'green'
    ]
];

// instantiate the get-style service
$css = new Get($styles);

// get the styles
$css();           // returns "color: red; font-size: small;"
$css('foo');      // returns "color: blue; font-size: medium;"
$css('bar');      // returns "color: green; font-size: small;"
$css('foo bar');  // returns "color: green; font-size: medium;"

This library is a (very) simple PHP Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) reader. It does not claim to be a full CSS parser! There are several of those already. This library is just a quick and easy way to produce inline CSS from an array of styles.

Names

This library has no concept of CSS selectors! Style names are treated as array keys. They can be any valid string. For example, p, a.foo, .foo, and foo are all valid style names.

Keep in mind, the asterisk (*) is a special style name that's treated as the global default style. If an asterisk style is defined, all styles will start with its declarations.

Declarations

This library merges style declarations like CSS. Given a space-separated string of style names (e.g., "foo bar baz"), it will merge the declarations with later declarations taking precedence over previous ones (i.e., "foo < bar < baz").

Keep in mind, this libary is not smart! It requires (very) simple style declarations.

Use valid declarations

This library makes no effort to validate your declarations. Make sure your CSS declarations are valid. Otherwise, you will have layout issues.

Avoid short-hand declarations

Short-hand CSS declarations like "margin" => "0 0 10px" cannot be merged intelligently with other declarations.

For example:

use Jstewmc\GetStyle;

// this will not work!
$styles1 = [
    '*' => [
        'margin' => '0 0 10px'
    ],
    'foo' => [
        'margin-top' => '15px'   
    ]
];

// this will work!
$styles2 = [
    '*' => [
        'margin-top'    => '0',
        'margin-left'   => '0',
        'margin-right'  => '0',
        'margin-bottom' => '10px'
    ],
    'foo' => [
        'margin-top' => '15px'
    ]  
];

// create two css services
$css1 = new Get($styles1);
$css2 = new Get($styles2);

$css1('foo');  // returns "margin: 0 0 10px; margin-top: 15px;"
$css2('foo');  // returns "margin-top: 15px; margin-left: 0; ... "

Watch quotes

This library will not quote space-separated styles. Make sure you quote any space-separated styles in your declarations like "Courier New".

use Jstewmc\GetStyle;

// this will not work!
$styles1 = [
    '*' => [
        'font-family' => 'Courier New'
    ]
];

// this will work!
$styles2 = [
    '*' => [
        'font-family' => '\'Courier New\''
    ] 
];

// create two css services
$css1 = new Get($styles1);
$css2 = new Get($styles2);

$css1();  // returns "font-family: Courier New;"
$css2();  // returns "font-family: 'Courier New';"

Keep in mind, if you are outputting your css as an inline style, make sure your CSS quotes don't collide with the quotes in your HTML source code.

For example:

use Jstewmc\GetStyle;

$styles = [
    '*' => [
        'font-family' => '"Courier New"'
    ]
];

$css = new Get($styles);

echo '<p style="'. $css() .'">Hello world!</p>'

The example above will produce the following broken HTML:

<p style="font-family: "Courier New"">Hello world!</p>

Avoid space-separated declarations

Even if you quote space-separated declarations correctly, you can still run into issues.

An email's HTML body is aggressively line-wrapped at 80 characters or less by some email clients. Newlines in the source code are replaced by spaces, and newlines characters are inserted where needed.

If a newline is inserted at the space in a declaration name, the declaration will break, and the corresponding element will be un-styled. At a minimum, this behavior has been confirmed on OSX 10 running Apple Mail 8.

Author

Jack Clayton

License

MIT

Version

1.0.0, August 16, 2016

• Major release
• Update composer.json
• Update comments

0.1.0, August 7, 2016

• Initial release