I build my site with some less files inside and also with some of another assets, I use hps://github.com/zsoltlengyelit/LessCSS-for-Yii for compile less files, and hps://github.com/andremetzen/yii-s3assetmanager for deploy to S3.
But the problem is when I refresh the assets and want to generate the new one it takes so long until my server stop because its already reach max execution time for compiling the CSS, and I’ve got a better idea to generate all this assets and publish it with console so I could run it when I deploy to production. But another problem is comes up, I couldn’t run :
Yii::app()->getAssetManager()->publish();
it always said :
CConsoleApplication.clientScript is not defined
Is there any chance/way to publish assets with commands/console? I hope this make sense for you.
same idea came to my mind using console to pre-publish assets, however, console app is actually different from webapp, i did not figure out how i would actual do it. so this is still a question mark to me.
i have to admit i never use LESS, but i’m not sure if i like the idea to have LESS to CSS at runtime, here is what i found: this
still use CSS as normal, just CSS comes from pre-compiled LESS
Yeap I still trying to make this happen, get CClientScript working with console but it always be dead end… maybe anyone already trying something and got some tweak or something that would make this happen.
But if I still didn’t found something to solved this maybe I will take your advice to compile the less before deploy it, but I still think it’ll be great if we can publish and generate less with console before we deploy it to production server.
Hi TheBee, I am trying to accomplish the same but without any luck.
Followed all indication from Make and your suggestion but not working, when calling getAssetManager throw exception CConsoleApplication and its behaviours do not have a method or closure named "getAssetManager";.
would you mind to share the assets republishing command and if possible console configuration would be helpfull.
Yes I followed all that, and first getAssetManager fails as didn’t get autoloaded.
However I solved with Yii:app()->getComponent(‘assetManager’) but then the publish method now it has 1 mandatory parameter that it look like the basePath that it is already configured in console.php, anyway I added with a getBasePath and now looks like it start generating but only 1 directory created and recursively same dir name so many time.