Whats the proper way to use a php stylesheet in a wordpress theme? [duplicate]

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How can I use WordPress functions in my stylesheet?

I have a file, custom.php, thats basically a stylesheet with php variables for the styles. I used this guide to make it but Im not sure how to use the style sheet in my theme. Here is my /styles/custom.php:

<?php 
header("Content-type: text/css"); 
?>
div{background-color:<?php echo "red" ?>;}

and my functions.php file has this:

$root=get_bloginfo('template_directory'); 
wp_enqueue_style("custom", $root."/styles/custom.php"); 

So the custom.php file should be rendered as a stylesheet right? But my wordpress site doesnt load the file contents. When I look at the source code via firebug and expand the custom.php file all I see is:

Reload the page to get source for: http://samsung/wordpress/wp-content/themes/kjd/styles/custom.php?ver=3.4.1

This is on my dev machine running Ubuntu 12.04, LAMP and Wordpress 3.4.1

Answer 1

Not sure if that's what you need, but take a look.

// Can be put into function.php

if ( !is_admin() ) { 
    add_action( "wp_enqueue_scripts", "enqueue_scripts", 11 ); 
}
function enqueue_scripts() {

    // Theme CSS (style.css)
    wp_enqueue_style( 'style-file', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css',false,'1.0','all' );

    // JS
    wp_register_script( 'script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/your-script.js', array('jquery') );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'script' );

}

Or use ...

// Used to include PHP
include_once(TEMPLATEPATH . 'script.php');

Sometimes it helps to also tell the .htaccess file how files should be handled. Throw this in your .htaccess file.

# handler for phpsuexec..
<FilesMatch "\.(css|style)$">
 SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>