Feature: Set LESS-Variables in PHP about lessphp

[xdissent]

Handling multidimensional option arrays, dealing with variable name collisions, keeping options from breaking LESS in the context of mixin arguments - there are a lot of ins and outs to this issue. I'm not sure any one convention will ever meet all needs that are tempting you with this functionality, so it might just be best left up to PHP. I've accomplished passing PHP vars to the LESS compiler by parsing an options array and generating a LESS snippet with all of my LESS variable definitions, adding it to the front of my LESS file (read into PHP not through lessc::compile()) and then parsing through the LESS compiler. All this took was like 4 lines, and it's gone through a few iterations as my style generation scheme has developed. It's my opinion that an "official" way to do this will not fit all applications, and a lot of time will be wasted on trying to force it to do exactly that. It's just PHP and LESS after all, the sky is already the limit.

[rahmansal]

This feature will be very nice, I am designing a website with base color and every other color is depending in this color with lighten() and darken() functions, It will be very powerful if i can give the user the ability to change the base color so he can change all other colors.

[leafo]

http://leafo.net/lessphp/docs/#setting_variables_from_php

It works a little bit differently than described, it doesn't overwrite variables in the top scope. Something which I think I should change.