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Asset compress

An asset compression plugin for CakePHP. Provides file concatenation and a flexible filter system for preprocessing and minification.

From markstory·Updated December 19, 2025·View on GitHub·

Asset Compress is CakePHP plugin for helping reduce the number of requests, and optimizing the remaining requests your application makes for Javascript and CSS files. The project is written primarily in PHP, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2010. Key topics include: asset-pipeline, cakephp, cakephp-plugin, php.

Latest release: 5.0.3AssetCompress 5.0.3
November 20, 2025View Changelog →

Asset Compress

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Asset Compress is CakePHP plugin for helping reduce the number of requests, and optimizing the remaining requests your application makes for Javascript and CSS files.

Features

  • Development mode builder that rebuilds assets on each request.
  • Command line build tool to compile static assets for deployment.
  • Built-in support for LESScss, Sass and CoffeeScript, as well as several
    minifiers.
  • Powerful and flexible filter system allowing you to add your own
    minifiers/pre-processors.
  • Simple configuration file.
  • Incremental builds that don't recompile assets when they don't need to
    be.

Installing

Add this plugin to your application with composer:

php composer.phar require markstory/asset_compress

Then make sure you load the plugin:

// in src/Application.php
// in the bootstrap() method add
$this->addPlugin('AssetCompress');

Copy the config/asset_compress.sample.ini from the plugin to your app's
config/asset_compress.ini. From there read the wiki
for more information.

Documentation

Documentation for AssetCompress is available on the github wiki pages

Issues

Please report any issues you have with the plugin to the issue tracker on github.

License

Asset Compress is offered under an MIT license.

Authors

See the github contributors list

Changelog

See CHANGELOG for changes only available on master. See
github releases for changelogs on previous releases.

Contributors

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