I am combining all of my css files into one file via PHP using

header('Content-type: text/css');

Within that processed PHP file, I want to get a field from an options page within Advanced Custom Fields.

the_field('field_name', 'option');

Even though I can successfully call the field in the section in 'header.php', I can't get it within the PHP file processing my css. Is there a way to do this?

I am combining all of my css files into one file via PHP using

header('Content-type: text/css');

Within that processed PHP file, I want to get a field from an options page within Advanced Custom Fields.

the_field('field_name', 'option');

Even though I can successfully call the field in the section in 'header.php', I can't get it within the PHP file processing my css. Is there a way to do this?

• php
• css
• advanced-custom-fields

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I'm not sure what exactly your setup is or where this file is but ACF saves its values as post meta. So you could simply use WP's get_post_meta() if ACF isn't available.

For Example:

get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'field_name', true );

You can also have a look at this article, it talks about using get_post_meta vs ACF functions.