I apologize in advance because this is one of those difficult issues, and may very well be human error on my part, but I've pulled out a fair amount of hair so I'm going to give it a shot and see if anyone has some insight.

I have asset_compress working great in development (OSX/Apache2/PHP5.3). Once I move it to production (Ubuntu/Nginx to Apache/PHP5.3) it ceases to write the combined JS file to webroot/cache_js. Both are running the latest version of Cake 1.3.

I have asset_compress.ini setup just like in development. I have the routes setup exactly the same as in development. The folders(cache_js & cache_css) are setup in webroot and set to 777. The helper is writing the time to tmp/asset_compress_build_time. When the helper writes the script tags it's writing:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/cache_js/common.1291384289.js?file[]=modernizr-1.6.min&amp;file[]=jquery.orbit.min.js&amp;file[]=underscore-min&amp;file[]=mustache.min&amp;file[]=plugins"></script>

Debug is set to 0 in production.

It just won't seem to write the combined file into the cache directory. I've monkeyed around with the settings in all different ways, and just can't seem to get a solution.

This is my INI file:

[Javascript]

searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/js/ stripComments = true cacheFiles = true timestamp = true cacheFilePath = WEBROOT/cache_js/

[Css]

searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/css/ searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/css/skins/ stripComments = true timestamp = true cacheFilePath = WEBROOT/cache_css/ cacheFiles = true

Thanks for your help.

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Although I am going to be talking about assets and improving speed (two things this plugin deals with), this may be outside the scope of this plugin.

Let's say that I had some CSS and JavaScript specific to my "Contact" page. I would include this in the "Contact" page's view file:

$this->AssetCompress->addCss('contact.css');
$this->AssetCompress->addScript('contact.js');

This method does work, but what about the scenario where the files are very small? Google Page Speed recommends inlining small assets because doing so can save the overhead of fetching these small files. I'm still new to this plugin, but, as far as I can tell, there's no way to indicate that these assets should be inlined. Is this a feature that could and/or should be added?

Today after moving asset_compress to cache on redis, we came across a bug, when there is no changes in any files it issues a CACHE::DELETE and the keys gets deleted from redis and it serves from the last stored file, which is creating an issue since we want to use Redis only not filesystem

I'm using ScssFilter for compiling sass. It works fine at first, but when I made some changes to scss files and refresh the web page, it didn't update. It worked only after I changed asset_compress.ini or asset_compress.local.ini file. Am I missing any config options for resolving this?

Just starting to use this plugin - looks very promising, nice work. Js is working fine for me, but when the css_files controller is getting hit, I get:

Fatal error: Class 'Folder' not found in <myapp>/app/plugins/asset_compress/models/asset_compressor.php on line 89 

Do you just need to do a App::import('Core', 'Folder'); before Making a Folder obj on line 89? or is my app not including this core library for some reason, when it should be?

When I add the import line to line 89, and re-run I get:

Failed to load source for: https://<mylocalhostdomain>/cache_css/be2b2b82466d97e351dc2a17c872742d.css?file[]=pages/home&file[]=common/custom&file[]=common/jquery.qtip

Here is the HTML:

<link href="/cache_css/be2b2b82466d97e351dc2a17c872742d.css?file[]=pages/home&amp;file[]=common/custom&amp;file[]=common/jquery.qtip" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">

Here is my ini. My routes are copy/paste from the wiki.

[Javascript]
searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/js/
searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/js/common/
searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/js/plugins/
stripComments = true
cacheFilePath = WEBROOT/cache_js/
cacheFiles = true
filters[] = JsMin
timestamp = true
stripComments = true

[Css]
searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/css/
searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/css/common/
searchPaths[] = WEBROOT/css/pages/
stripComments = true
cacheFilePath = WEBROOT/cache_css/
cacheFiles = true
filters[] = CssMin
timestamp = true
stripComments = true

I've tried removing CssMin filter, but run into same problem.

1 more piece of info that may help, my web user has write permissions to app/webroot/cache_js and app/webroot/cache_css but I dont see any files written into them.

I'm ubuntu 10.10 64bit, PHP 5.3.3.

any ideas? thx in advance.

//error400.ctp

<section> <div class="container"> <h1>Oh, oh!</h1> <h3>Looks like you took wrong turn for 400!</h3> </div> </section>

//error500.ctp

<section> <div class="container"> <h1>Oh, oh!</h1> <h3>Looks like you took wrong turn for 500!</h3> </div> </section>

//default.ctp

If I am entering a wrong url getting error message from error500.ctp and loading the default layout multiple times. Once I comment the assetCompress it is working fine just load the error400.ctp file and the layout just load once.

This causes a problem when you include jquery in the layout file and then in the view file, you include a plugin that requires jquery. The plugin.js precedes jquery.js in the html source code so your js doesn't work.

I managed to solve the issue by changing script function in the helper file thus:

public function script($file, $destination = 'default') {
    if (empty($this->_scripts[$destination])) {
        $this->_scripts[$destination] = array();
    }
    $this->_scripts[$destination] = array_merge($this->_scripts[$destination], (array)$file);
    $tmp[$destination] = $this->_scripts[$destination];
    unset($this->_scripts[$destination]);
    $this->_scripts = array_merge($tmp, $this->_scripts);
}

Might not be too clever, but worked for me. Perhaps there is some way we could send a flag saying wich order you would like to use?

I like the new feature of not exposing the controller on production apps, so I upgraded from 0.5 to latest master. After doing so, when using debug > 0 (for local development) my assets switched from rendering urls like /asset_compress/assets/get/common.css to /cache_css/common.css. I'm guessing the new version always writes the built asset to the 'cache_path' but it does not seem to be doing it for me.

Here is my ini: https://gist.github.com/5fccb0d3bb58db632158

I have tried alwaysEnableController = true and alwaysEnableController = false. I have tried [css_common.css] and [common.css]. I have tried filters and no filters.

Cake 2.2.3, My debug is 2, loading via CakePlugin::load('AssetCompress', array('bootstrap' => true)); CakePlugin::load('DebugKit'); calling echo $this->AssetCompress->css('common.css'); in my default.ctp layout. webroot/cache_css and cache_js are writeable by everyone. echo $this->AssetCompress->css('common.css',array('raw'=>true)); renders my individual css files and things work as expected.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

You know I was talking about making a LESS filter. Well I did and it worked fine, but when I went along and used it in conjunction with normal CSS files (Blueprint CSS framework), the LESS compiler died.

So what I need to do is per-file processing and only if it is a LESS file. What I was thinking is to implement custom processors. They will basically work the same way as the filters only for every file. They will be executed before AssetCompressor::preprocess() in AssetCompressor::process().

The AssetCompressor::$processedOutput property needs a little change too, so the contents of the files remain separated from eachother until all processors have been triggered. After that it will be a simple implode("\n") and then it will continue like it was by calling AssetCompressor::preprocess(), etc.

What do you think? Should I go for it or do you have a better idea?

P.S. I couldn't use underscores because markdown saw it like it should be italic.

Hi Mark, just want to give the info that the Installation guide in the Readme file/Wiki does not work any more since version 3.4.0.

// in config/bootstrap.php
Plugin::load('AssetCompress', ['bootstrap' => true]);

should be changed to

// in src/Application.php
// Load AssetCompress Plugin >= 3.4.0
$this->addPlugin('AssetCompress');

Using the old method to load the plugin I get an error when requesting assets in debug mode.

For Js files, I get filenames like

product_view.v1373003935.js

For Css files, I get filenames like product_view.css

Is there anything wrong with that?

I am using Cake 2.4.0-beta and AssetCompress commit (dev-master f555812)

My config settings are:

My localhost development tends to use debug 2 And I always set Asset.timestamp to true

In production, I use debug 0 and also Asset.timestamp to true as well.

Please advise.

A more regularly updated filter with support for both JS and CSS would be nice, especially without dependencies like Ruby or Java.

https://github.com/matthiasmullie/minify seems to fit the bill.

I'm thinking I'll make a PR adding this filter in the future.

i'm migrate cake3 to cake 4 but i get this error Helper class AssetCompressHelper could not be found in line $this->loadHelper('AssetCompress.AssetCompress'); in AppView.php

@markstory please help

home page : http://localhost/sub_folder

$this->AssetCompress->url('css-combined.css');

What happened

returns

/assets/css/css-combined.v123.css

What you expected to happen

should be

/sub_folder/assets/css/css-combined.v123.css

version :

markstory/asset_compress | 3.3.0 -- | --

Hi @markstory.

I want to use an automatic CSS prefixer but I don't see any filter for this task. Creating filter is easy but repetitive work.

Most or all filters are available as commands. It would be very convenient having a type of filter that I can provide a command line to and the filter just executes the command feeding the assets in the input and collecting the output. I think such filter doesn't exist, does it?

I'd prefer implementing such filter than implementing a filter for every new command that I want to add to the filter chain. Any downsides? Would you accept PRs to do so?

I have a lot of js files in webroot/js folder. And I want to build js files separately for each. is there any to do this in easily with a configuration file? I want to like this. [*.js] files[] = *.js

Hi, I am trying to compress assets in both main webroot folder and plugin webroot folder.

webroot/assets/js/*.js => webroot/js/*.js {plugin name}/webroot/assets/js/*.js => {plugin name}/webroot/js/*.js

the problem is that there is only one cachePath. so if main webroot assets work, then plugin assets don't work. is there any way to build both assets at the same time?