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

[Stephen Rider]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Andrew Ozz wrote:

> 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).

Okay, that's kind of what I thought, and that's what I'm doing (okay,  
in my actual case it's a JavaScript into which I'm passing variables,  
but same principle).

What got me thinking about this is that lately every time I turn  
around I've got some WP article or whatnot telling me I really really  
really ought to be using the wp-enqueue functions, and that I'm  
basically doing something wrong if I don't use them.  But using them  
there's no way to connect them to info from the database, **except**  
for direct-loading wp-head.php or wp-config.php (or some other file  
I'm not supposed to direct-load).

Soo... either do the "wrong" thing by not using enqueue, or do the  
"wrong" thing by direct-loading wp-config.php.   I don't personally  
see any harm in bypassing enqueue in such cases, but there are some  
seriously mixed signals going on....  :-\

Stephen

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