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Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points
Posted by Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points

Adding PHP to background-image url

This is what I have so far but it's not working This is what I have background-image: url(<?php the_field( 'project_images' ); ?> );

Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points
Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points

This is what I have 

.project-images {
    background-image:url('<?php the_field( 'project_images' ); ?>');
}

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I did some reformatting of you text for you so it shows up nicer. : )

You can't evaluate PHP in a CSS file. The only way to do this with PHP is to set the CSS value as an inline CSS value. Something like

<div class="product-images" style="background-image:url('<?php the_field( 'product_images'); ?>');"></div>
Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points
Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points

Nothing is showing. Here's my site http://www.davisrousseau.com/work/pgd-media-kit-website/. thanks

element { background-image: url(''); }

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

You may have to echo the_field out. Try 

<?php echo the_field( 'product_images'); ?>

Not sure off the top of my head. Depends on how the plugins function was written. I suspect that's the case.

Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points
Davis Rousseau
Davis Rousseau
6,670 Points

Nothing.

This is how I have it set up

<div class="product-images" style="background-image:url('<?php the_field( 'product_images'); ?>');"> <?php echo the_field( 'product_images'); ?> </div>

Also I'm using custom fields

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

You need to echo the_field where you set the URL in the style block. So it should read

I know as long as you can successfully return an image URL from your custom field you will be good.

<div class="product-images" style="background-image:url('<?php the_field( 'product_images'); ?>');"> </div>

Everything is ready to go once you can get the custom field to spit out the URL. I was playing around with it.

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