hyra / coffee-cake

Coffeescript compiler for CakePHP 2.1

Coffee Helper

This little Helper converts your .coffee files into .js without relying on Node.js or client-side parsing. Everything is compiled on the server, cached, and served as regular js through using the coffeescript-php compiler.

Installation

Get the files in place

Clone from github: in your plugin directory type git clone https://github.com/Hyra/Coffee-Cake.git Coffee You should end up having a folder app/Plugin/Coffee

Create the coffee folder

• Create a folder called coffee in app/webroot/
• Optionally apply chmod 777 to your js folder. (The Coffee Helper will place all compiled js files in your js-directory.)

Usage

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

public $helpers = array('Coffee.Coffee');

Next, simply add the Coffee files to your views:

echo $this->Coffee->script('yourfile');

or

echo $this->Coffee->script(array(
		'somedir/somefile',
		'awesome_script',
	)
);

That's it.