The Bakery Everything CakePHP

In this article, I will show some ideas in how to organize your CSS files and how to autoload them in your CakePHP project. Some of them are elegant , and others are not so elegant as they could be ...

This is a helper and CSS file for displaying a dropdown menu on your site.

Want free professional layouts for your cake?
How to translate a jOOmla template to a cakephp layout with very little effort.

Like cake isn't already doing enough magic...
Here is a helper to make it even better! Injects CSS/JS into the head tag in your layout and autoloads css/js files for you based on current controller and action.

Recently I was developing a cake app for a client who wanted to use the same system several times for a project and the same layout, but with different visual changes, like color etc. I had used simple version of css management based on the config component. This is a full blown version of this solution.

Multiple javascript and CSS files simplify things in development, but in production they can begin to adversely affect your page loading times. With AssetPackager for CakePHP, we can have the best of both worlds by allowing multiple files during development and combining and compressing those files for deployment.

Another JavaScript/CSS combiner and packer was recently posted to the Bakery. I felt it was a little configuration heavy and required too much manual intervention. This version is much more automated and requires virtually no code changes.

Map your entire web application's asset (JavaScript/CSS) includes with one file!

Easier way to manage JavaScript and CSS includes. Built on top of Asset Packer which compacts files and put them through CSS Tidy and JSMin.