Adding version number to CSS file

[lesliekirk]

Before the advent of using a css.php you could add a version number to the end of the file which would force it to update:

style.css?ver=1.0

How would you go about adding it to this?

<link href="css/00000001/css.php" rel="stylesheet" />

or can you? I need something that will push/force the latest changes to the CSS files.

[lesliekirk]

Can I do something like this in the css.php file?

include('style.css?ver=1.0');

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

simply use <link href="css/00000001/css.php?&mvt:system:time_t" rel="stylesheet" />

which will add the unix time stamp as a query...since its a query and css.php is a file, it just gets ignored by the server...but not the browser

[lesliekirk]

Not sure that quite worked. When I viewed the source code, all I saw was this

<link href="css/00000001/css.php?" rel="stylesheet" />

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Well you need something that will be unique for every call, so time_t would be the obvious choice...can you just render &mvt:system:time_t; ? Seems that some template just don't get some of the system variables (but you'd think time would always be there...I suppose you could use &mvt:global:session_id; too.