Compression

Compression is a light weight class that will load a CSS stylesheet, bind and translate given variables, compress and remove white space and cache the output for future use.

View More

Entries for CSS

Sep
19

Calling functions within your CSS files

Code, PHP // 0 comments
I always thought CSS should have a little bit more power, like the use of inline programming functions and dynamic variables. That's exactly why I set out to write my Compression class. On top of compressing the CSS files, saving cached versions and assigning dynamic variables, the class can now call PHP functions that have been written inline within the CSS itself. Continue reading...
Apr
14

Easily resetting your stylesheets

Tutorials, HTML & CSS // 4 comments
I always hear talk about reset CSS, and how every website should encompass them. I mean it is everywhere. I honestly never found the use or reasoning to include an additional stylesheet, just to render elements as "dull". I simply use the code below to reset only elements I need to worry about, or ones that are used as the majority. Continue reading...
Apr
9

CSS/JS/Asset Compression in CakePHP

Tutorials, CakePHP // 27 comments
The other day I spent way too many hours trying to figure out CakePHPs built in CSS and JS compression system. To say the least, its not really built in, you have to configure and do a lot of it yourself. I did much searching and found tutorials that didn't work, or using custom built helpers that were of no use, and in the end I wrote my own script (based off webroot/css.php written by gwoo). Continue reading...