Scaffold is a CSS pre-processor built in PHP that allows developers to easily create custom extensions to CSS and reduce the amount of time they spend writing code.

Out of the box, you get:

• Nested Selectors
• Variables
• Minify/YUI/CSSTidy compression
• Automatically parse files through SASS.
• Combining of files
• Data URI embedding of images/fonts
• Custom CSS functions like @random()@ and @hsla()@
• Custom CSS properties like @image-replace:url();@
• Variables powered by XML
• Mixins

With a complete cache system included; you don’t need to worry about the hit to the server. In addition, Scaffold will serve your CSS to the browser with the correct caching headers.

• Gzip components
• Sets a far-future expires header
• Configures ETags

How it works

Requests to CSS files are made through Scaffold:

<link href="https://github.com/im-richard/Scaffold/blob/master/scaffold/parse.php?file=/stylesheets/master.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

You need to tell @parse.php@ the location of a CSS file, and it will do all the work for you. Alternatively, you can [[use a .htaccess file automatically parse CSS files in a directory|Automatically parsing files with a .htaccess file]].

If the file has changed, Scaffold will recache the file, otherwise it will just fetch the processed file from the cache and return that.

Requirements

• PHP 5.2

Setup

Download the latest version and place the scaffold/ folder somewhere on your webserver.

The @parse.php@ file needs to be accessible to the web, so either put the scaffold folder in your web directory, or move parse.php and change the @$system@ variable inside this file to point to the scaffold directory. @parse.php@ contains the [[configuration options|Configuration]] for Scaffold.

Now in your HTML reference CSS files by going through the @parse.php@ file:

<link href="https://github.com/im-richard/Scaffold/blob/master/path/to/parse.php?file=/path/to/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

The file parameter can point to the CSS file using either an absolute path, a path relative to parse.php or you can add your stylesheet directory to the @load_paths@ array in @parse.php@.

Documentation

See the wiki for more detailed documentation.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Richard Tanner & Anthony Short

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