LESS Helper

This little Helper converts your .less files into .css without relying on Node.js or client-side parsing. Everything is compiled on the server, cached, and served as regular css through PHP.

Forked from flug/CakeLess because of leafo/lessphp doesn't compatible with Twitter Bootstrap 3. Now oyejorge/less.php is using instead

Installation

Git Submodule

In your cakephp's root directory type

git submodule add https://github.com/SongPhi/cake-lessphp.git app/Plugin/CakeLess
git submodule init
git submodule update

Git clone

In your cakephp's root directory type

git clone https://github.com/SongPhi/cake-lessphp.git app/Plugin/CakeLess

Composer

In your root cakephp, edit your composer.json to fit:

"require": {
	"composer/installers": "*",
	"songphi/cakephp-less": "dev-master",
	"oyejorge/less.php": "~1.7"
},
"extra": {
	"installer-paths": {
		"app/Plugin/{$name}/": ["songphi/cakephp-less"]
	}
}

Plugin Loading

In your app/Config/bootstrap.php add this line:

CakePlugin::load('CakeLess');

It doesn't need if you already have this line:

CakePlugin::loadAll();

Create cache and less folders

• Create a folder app/webroot/less
• Create a folder app/tmp/cache/less
• Apply chmod 777 to your css folder. (The Less Helper will place all compiled css files in your css-directory)

Usage

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

public $helpers = array('CakeLess.Less');

Next, simply add the less files to your views:

echo $this->Less->css('yourfile');

or if the less file is located in the webroot of a plugin

echo $this->Less->css('yourfile',array('plugin' => 'PluginFolderName'));

or

echo $this->Less->css(array(
		'bootstrap/bootstrap',
		'prettify',
	)
);