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jamierumbelow/sherlock
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Simple, elegant asset pipeline for PHP

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[](#sherlock-)

Sherlock provides PHP asset pipelining so simple, it's elementary. It's inspired by Sprockets, django-pipeline and Assetic, and aims to create a simpler and more approachable asset pipeline for PHP developers.

Synopsis
--------

[](#synopsis)

```
$assets = new Sherlock\Environment('app/assets', 'public/assets');
echo $assets['some_file.css'];
echo $assets['application.js'];

$bundle = new Sherlock\Bundle(array( 'stylesheets/some_file.css', 'stylesheets/another.css' ));
$bundle->compile('application.css');

$server = new Sherlock\Server($assets);
```

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

[](#installation)

Use Composer, obviously! Get it (if you haven't already):

```
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

```

Create/edit **composer.json**:

```
{
	"require": {
		"jamierumbelow/sherlock": "*"
	}
}

```

Install:

```
$ php composer.phar install

```

...and autoload!

```
require_once 'path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

```

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

We start a new pipeline by creating an instance of `Sherlock\Environment`. Its constructor takes two arguments, a root directory and a compile directory:

```
$assets = new Sherlock\Environment('app/assets', 'public/assets');

```

Both will default to the working directory. We can then set up a new bundle:

```
$bundle = $assets->bundle('stylesheets/*');

```

Concatenate and compile the bundle...

```
$bundle->compile('application.css');

```

..and load our asset in our template:

```