maurymmarques/minify-cakephp

A CakePHP plugin that facilitates the use of PHP Minify with CakePHP

Minify plugin for CakePHP

This plugin was developed to facilitate Minify use with CakePHP, _(*1)

Minify is an application that combines multiple CSS or Javascript files, removes unnecessary whitespace and comments, and serves them with gzip encoding and optimal client-side cache headers., _(*2)

More info: http://code.google.com/p/minify, _(*3)

For this plugin, the Minify application is inside Vendor, _(*4)

Version

Written for CakePHP 2.x, _(*5)

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Maury M. Marques, _(*6)

Installation

You can install this plugin using Composer, GIT Submodule, GIT Clone or Manually, _(*7)

[Using Composer], _(*8)

Add the plugin to your project's composer.json - something like this:, _(*9)

{
  "require": {
    "maurymmarques/minify-plugin": "dev-master"
  },
  "extra": {
        "installer-paths": {
            "app/Plugin/Minify": ["maurymmarques/minify-plugin"]
        }
    }
}

Then just run composer install, _(*10)

Because this plugin has the type cakephp-plugin set in it's own composer.json, composer knows to install it inside your /Plugin directory, rather than in the usual vendors file., _(*11)

[GIT Submodule], _(*12)

In your app directory (app/Plugin) type:, _(*13)

git submodule add git://github.com/maurymmarques/minify-cakephp.git Plugin/Minify
git submodule init
git submodule update

[GIT Clone], _(*14)

In your plugin directory (app/Plugin or plugins) type:, _(*15)

git clone https://github.com/maurymmarques/minify-cakephp.git Minify

[Manual], _(*16)

• Download the Minify archive.
• Unzip that download.
• Rename the resulting folder to Minify
• Then copy this folder into app/Plugin/ or plugins

Configuration

Bootstrap the plugin in app/Config/bootstrap.php:, _(*17)

CakePlugin::load(array('Minify' => array('routes' => true)));

Set the configuration file in your app/Config/core.php, _(*18)

Configure::write('MinifyAsset', true);

If you do not want to use compression, set false., _(*19)

Note

Create a folder called "minify" in app/tmp/cache and give it permission to read and write., _(*20)

Usage

Enable the helper using the plugin syntax, _(*21)

class BakeriesController extends AppController {
    public $helpers = array('Minify.Minify');
}

This plugin uses HtmlHelper, and virtually it works in the same way., _(*22)

In the view you can use something like:, _(*23)

echo $this->Minify->css(array('default', 'global'));
echo $this->Minify->script(array('jquery', 'interface'));