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Using beanstalks .revision file to assure that the latest CSS gets to the browsers when using aggressive caching
<?php
$content = file('/path/to/.revision');
//First line: $content[0];
define('REV',trim($content[0]));
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css?v=<?=REV?>">
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yatil commented Aug 22, 2011

Note: Actually it would be better to have the revision of the file itself, so that caching works properly. Alternatives are dates as a query string or in the filename.

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I was wondering what this file was! This is excellent, thanks for the gist, it will work perfectly.

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