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October 18, 2011 at 10:47 am #89229
Chris Coyier
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AutoVersion is essentially a PHP function that takes the file path of that CSS file as a parameter. It does the four things listed on one of those following slides.

So instead of Smarty, it could be…

Or any other server side language.

The .htaccess ensures that CSS files that are loaded *directly* are parsed by PHP (they wouldn’t be normally) so the AutoVersioning works on them as well.