Generate CSS with PHP, yes/no?

Question

Is there any reason you should not use PHP to overcome some of the shortcomings of CSS? Live inspection would be harder but are there any functional downsides?

Answer 1

Yes, it's great to preprocess CSS somehow. But do not invent a wheel. There are lots of "standard" options to use:

• Sass http://sass-lang.com/
• Turbine http://turbinecss.org/
• Pornel http://pornel.net/css
• Less http://lesscss.org/
• more, just search.