@include'ing from a variable?

[zamoose]

Howdy.

The following doesn't seem to work:

In functions.php

function lblg_less_vars( $vars, $handle ) {
    $vars['layout'] = '3-columns-fixed-sb-right';
    return $vars;
}
add_filter( 'less_vars', 'lblg_less_vars', 10, 2 );

In the .less file:

@import "@{themeurl}/layouts/less/@{layout}.less";

This results in:

@import "http://localhost:8888/3.1/wp-content/themes/elbee-elgee/layouts/less/3-columns-fixed-sb-right.less";
.liststyle {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;

...etc.

What am I doing wrong? Is this even possible?

[franz-josef-kaiser]

Maybe you should start explaining what you're expecting to happen? Hard to guess from

The following doesn't seem to work

Hint: "doesn't work" is in nearly 99% of all cases too less.

P.s.: If the 3.1 says, that you're using WP version 3.1... then you should update.

[roborourke]

Can you tell us whether you get an error message, or whether the parsed file still contains the unmodified line you included?

Because @import behaves a bit differently in less it might not be parsed as expected along with the rest of the file. I'll check with @leafo

[zamoose]

@franz-josef-kaiser I guess I wasn't as descriptive as possible.

@sanchothefat No error messages. Let me describe to you what I'm going for. I want to have a "master" LESS file that gets parsed and I want to include other files along the way. However, I have layouts and styling separated out so that users can choose 1, 2 or 3 columns, percentage, fixed width, etc. So, using @-variables, I'd like to be able to include different layout .less files on-the-fly. If this was working, e.g. @include @{layout}.less would actually import the contents of layout.less and render the CSS. Instead, the @import statement is itself rendered into the final CSS.

Make sense?

[zamoose]

Actually, this upstream issue describes what I'm going for as well: https://github.com/leafo/lessphp/issues/328

[roborourke]

Yep, this is something that would have to go into lessphp so I can't fix it here.

There is another way you might be able to do it though using pattern matching or guarded mixins:

// css/LESS
.layout(@layout) when (@layout = 2-column) {
    @import "2-column";
}
.layout(@layout) when (@layout = 3-column) {
    @import "3-column";
}
.layout(@layout);

I've not tested the above but it might be a starting point. It might be that less parses and prefetches the contents of any imported files before parsing the thing as a whole. I'm not too familiar with the inner workings unfortunately of lessphp :/

Let me if it works!

[roborourke]

I've just updated to 0.3.8 - can you try out your use case again?

[roborourke]

Just tested this and it doesn't appear to work :(

[franz-josef-kaiser]

I'm not too familiar with the inner workings unfortunately of lessphp :/

Who is? It's uncommented crap without proper DocBlocks :) For some of the earlier patch, I did the debug from the inner side of the submodule, but the internal calls go back and forth, so don't blame yourself.

@see https://github.com/leafo/lessphp/issues/332