Minifier - Minify and compress your css files with Atomik Framework

Download Minifier ! See the Plugin page

Why should I use Minifier ?

There are many reasons for that :

You don't need to compress your files before uploading them to your server.
You can have as many CSS files as you want, there will always be only one HTTP request.
You gain bandwidth.
Compressed CSS files are cached, so this doesn't use much resources.

How do I use Minifier ?

Minifier is a plugin for the PHP framework Atomik Framework. You need it to use Minifier.

After installing Minifier in your Atomik Framework, you have to do three things :

Create the assets/css_cache/ folder with read/write access for everyone. This folder's name can be changed by using the 'cache/dir' configuration key.

Configure Atomik's bootstrap so it uses Minifier :

Atomik::set(array (
    'plugins' => array(
        'Minifier',
    ),
);

Replace the following in your layout file :

<?php foreach (A('styles', array()) as $style): ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Atomik::asset($style) ?>" />
<?php endforeach; ?>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Atomik::asset(MinifierPlugin::minify()); ?>" />

or :

<?php MinifierPlugin::minify(true); ?>

or if you put the configuration key 'force_css_link' to true :

<?php MinifierPlugin::minify(); ?>

After you did it, Minifier is going to do all the job alone. You just have to declare your CSS files as you do it usually with Atomik Framework.