Carabiner 1.4: Asset Management Library

[eluser]Devon Lambert[/eluser]
[quote author="Kwickell" date="1247595948"]Just noticed Carabiner and my first impressions are really good.
I have one question that i have been trying to find an answer to though...

Is there any way have assets used on every/most pages autoload or to declare groups of assets somewhere for easy access, without going into my controls?
I would like to keep as much of the design separate from logic as possible.

Thanks
/Kim[/quote]

Hi Kim,

I was having this exact same issue! I wanted an easy way to package up all the necessary css and js files that the site uses on the whole, but then also make use of some dynamic/on-the-fly scripts through out my site. Carabiner definitely handles this nicely with the groups feature.

Go the the carabiner.php file found in your config folder. look for the groups section.

The syntax you will need to use will look something like this:

Code:

//For Javascript
$config['groups']['site_js'] = array('js' => array(array('js_filename.js')));

// For CSS
$config['groups']['site_css'] = array('css' => array(array('css_filename.css')));

You could then reference these global groups wherever you need it with:

Code:

$this->carabiner->display('site_js');
$this->carabiner->display('site_css');