[wp-hackers] wp-config.php, wp-load.php, and ABSPATH

[Andrew Ozz]

Stephen Rider wrote:
> Okay then, here's an example that probably comes up a lot in plugins.
> 
> I want to make a CSS file that gets some of its stuff from PHP.  So 
> "mystyles.css.php".  Most of it is a simple echo, but a few things in 
> the stylesheet are pulled from settings on the wp_settings table in the 
> database.
> 
> The CSS/PHP file is pulled directly by the browser and is thus not "WP 
> Aware".  How would I get that file to access the WP database?

Short answer: you can't. Best option is to add a normal stylesheet and 
then output any bits that depend on the db in a <style> tag after that. 
This way WordPress won't run twice on each page load (once to generate 
the HTML, second time to generate the stylesheet).