asset-pipeline for laravel 4.0

[aditya-]

Hi @kdocki

i am using laravel 4.0 . i am using older version of asset-pipeline .. @kdocki can you please suggest some latest stable version of asset-pipeline which is compatible with laravel 4.0 . How to upgrade from old ?

can i optimize my images using this asset-pipeline .. if yes ... how to that ..

Thanks in advance

[GrahamCampbell]

Give him a break. It's only been 3 hours!

[aditya-]

sorry @GrahamCampbell .. can you suggest anything on this issue

[GrahamCampbell]

I don't personally use this package, but it looks like any version is compatible judging by the composer requirement of "4.x". If you want the latest stable version of this package, just require it with the version constraint of "1.x@stable".

[aditya-]

@GrahamCampbell .. thanks .. can i implement image optimization using the asset-pipeline.. or any better framework is there

[GrahamCampbell]

Maybe https://github.com/orchestral/imagine would be of some use?

[kdocki]

@aditya- You should be able to use the latest version with Laravel 4.0 or 4.1

[aditya-]

@kdocki .. thanks .. bt can i optimize my images using this asset-pipeline .. if yes ... how to that ..

[kdocki]

No idea how to optimize images. You might try using that library GrahamCampbell mentioned above though.

[GrahamCampbell]

@aditya- That library I gave you won't optimize them straight off. You will need to write your own code to do it.

[aditya-]

@kdocki @GrahamCampbell .. i saw this .. https://gist.github.com/Spir/5650030 which is based assetic .. its an image optimization gist file .. i am unable to make it work ... but its good one .. can you please look

[aditya-]

@Spir can you specify usage instruction .. where i need to keep this in laravel .. as i am getting Class 'Illuminate\Console\Command' not found .. error ..

[Spir]

@aditya- that gist I made a while ago is actually triggering shell commands. You first need to install jpegoptim and optipng that are doing the real job. Commands are saved under app/commands so that's where you should save it. The php artisan dump-autoload and don't forget to register the command:
http://laravel.com/docs/commands#registering-commands

[aditya-]

@Spir ... Thanks its really a great gist .. Actually is assetic image optimization is a bit complex .. becoz we need to do individually .. so to use this first i need to register like Artisan::add(new ImageOptimize); .. and i need to save gist file at app/commands ... there i need to run right ?

in gist file where to give $imagesFolders path ... how to give like relative path or absolute path ... Please let me know .. Thank you

[Spir]

Yeap add folders that contains images like:

$imagesFolders = Array(
    public_path().'/photos/',
    public_path().'/some_more_images/'
);

Then you can do "php artisan list" and see if the command is listed. Then you can launch image optimizations :

php artisan ImageOptimize