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clooder/cakeless
================

Cakephp Less

2131PHP

Since Jul 23Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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LESS Helper
-----------

[](#less-helper)

This little Helper converts your .less files into .css without relying on Node.js or client-side parsing. Everything is compiled on the server, cached, and served as regular css through PHP.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

#### Git clone

[](#git-clone)

In your plugin directory type

```
git clone https://github.com/Hyra/less.git Less

```

#### Composer

[](#composer)

In your root cakephp

```
"require" : {
	"clooder/cakeless": "dev-master"
}

composer install

```

### Create cache and less folders

[](#create-cache-and-less-folders)

- Create a folder called `less` in `app/webroot/`
- Create a folder called `less` in `app/tmp/cache`
- Apply `chmod 777` to your `css` folder. (The Less Helper will place all compiled css files in your css-directory)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Where you want to use LESS files, add the helper. Usually this will be your `AppController`.

```
public $helpers = array('Less.Less');

```

Next, simply add the less files to your views:

```
echo $this->Less->css('yourfile');

```

or if the less file is located in the webroot of a plugin

```
echo $this->Less->css('yourfile',array('plugin' => 'PluginFolderName'));

```

or

```
echo $this->Less->css(array(
		'bootstrap/bootstrap',
		'prettify',
	)
);

```

It doesn't matter if you link to stolen .css files directly, the Helper will check for the existance of a .less version first, and fall back if it doesn't find one.

If it does find a corresponding .less file with the same name in your less directory, it will compile it to css and place it in your css directory

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 60.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1810304?v=4)[Flug](/maintainers/flug)[@flug](https://github.com/flug)

---

Top Contributors

[![Hyra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/380836?v=4)](https://github.com/Hyra "Hyra (39 commits)")[![flug](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1810304?v=4)](https://github.com/flug "flug (18 commits)")[![bfncs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1049882?v=4)](https://github.com/bfncs "bfncs (2 commits)")[![ybenassuli](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4007074?v=4)](https://github.com/ybenassuli "ybenassuli (2 commits)")[![electblake](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22871?v=4)](https://github.com/electblake "electblake (1 commits)")[![bfanger](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207248?v=4)](https://github.com/bfanger "bfanger (1 commits)")[![Maff-](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/371966?v=4)](https://github.com/Maff- "Maff- (1 commits)")

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