Parse a CSS file with PHP

Question

I want to parse (in a special way) a CSS file with PHP.

Example:

cssfile.css:

#stuff {
    background-color: red;
}

#content.postclass-subcontent {
    background-color: red;
}

#content2.postclass-subcontent2 {
    background-color: red;
}

And I want that PHP returns me each class name that have the postclass in its name.

The result look like an array having in this example:

arrayentry1:
#content.postclass-subcontent
arrayentry2:
#content2.postclass-subcontent2

But I'm worse at regular expressions. somehow search for "postclass" and then grap the hole line and put into an array.

---

thank you and i used it to parse a css file simliar to a confic file.

$(function () {
    $.get('main.css', function (data) {
        data = data.match(/(#[a-z0-9]*?\ .?postclass.*?)\s?\{/g);
        if (data) {
            $.each(data, function (index, value) {
                value = value.substring(0, value.length - 2);
                $(value.split(' .')[0]).wrapInner('<div class="' + value.split('.')[1] + '" />');
            });
        }
    });
});

was my final code. so i can wrap easily a div around some hardcode-html without editing the layout. so i just have to edit my cssfile and add there something like

id .postclass-class { some styles }

and my code searchs for the id and wraps the inner content with an div. i needed that for quickfixes when i just have to add a div around something for a clear or a background.

Answer 1

There is a very good CSS parser class in PHP. Use it. Here is its sample code:

<?php
include("cssparser.php");

$css = new cssparser();
$css->ParseStr("b {font-weight: bold; color: #777777;} b.test{text-decoration: underline;}");
echo $css->Get("b","color");     // returns #777777
echo $css->Get("b.test","color");// returns #777777
echo $css->Get(".test","color"); // returns an empty string
?>