CSS Injector

[WMuckaMW]

give link for download and try please

[kumquatsta]

nice module, nice vid

[MelismaLife]

Fantastic - this is a great module and I appreciate the video showing how it works without having to install it first...

Great to use a file instead of DB - not only can Drupal aggregate the CSS files (if you set the caching) BUT even if you don't, the browser will aggregate the file anyway.

[somecomputergeek]

Cool, but why use files?

Why not put it in the database? You could have multiple rules/snippets and include them inline on pageload without all of those file system calls.

[jeffeaton]

File system calls are faster than bootstrapping Drupal to generate the CSS on the fly each time it's needed; in addition, using the filesystem means that Drupal can automatically aggregate the snippets into a single master CSS file for the site, saving hits and download time.

[somecomputergeek]

Interesting. I guess I really need to dig more into the Drupal internals. I've found that, in php, a single database call is faster than multiple file calls, but you seam to know a hell of a lot more about the Drupal framework than I do. Thanks.

Do you have a blog listing all of the modules you've working on? I really like simpleviews.

[JeremyVisser]

@somecomputergeek The reason why database calls seem faster than multiple file calls is because of the latency between you and the server — especially if you have a fast database server, like you seem to have. However, querying the CSS directly puts a lot of load on your DB, and it can fall over during a slashdotting.

Instead, you should use files combined with Drupal’s CSS optimisation feature, which caches all CSS files into a single file, eliminating latency issues. Highly recommended.

[ximono]

Cool little module