How to use Minify without composer

[matthiasmullie]

1: Clone this (minifier) repository: https://github.com/matthiasmullie/minify. Make sure you leave the directory structure intact (the files in data/js should stay in the same location relative to src/JS.php)

2: Clone path-converter repository: https://github.com/matthiasmullie/path-converter

3: Include all files from both projects.
Assuming you cloned both projects to /path/to/libraries/, that would look like this:

// make sure to update the path to where you cloned the projects to!
$path = '/path/to/libraries';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/Minify.php';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/CSS.php';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/JS.php';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/Exception.php';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/Exceptions/BasicException.php';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/Exceptions/FileImportException.php';
require_once $path . '/minify/src/Exceptions/IOException.php';
require_once $path . '/path-converter/src/ConverterInterface.php';
require_once $path . '/path-converter/src/Converter.php';

4: Use minifier! E.g.:

use MatthiasMullie\Minify;
$minifier = new Minify\CSS('body { color: red; }');
echo $minifier->minify();

[gitrequests]

Thanks It works.
But how to use short links here?
For example: domain.com/min/?f=... in link tag?

[PaoloFalomo]

⚠️ over here. If you use clone it will add /tests/ folders too. And it's not necessary to upload them. Could you please give us a non-composer-needed blob?

[tjespe]

Is the path-converter library really necessary? What does it do?

[matthiasmullie]

Yes it is. It will convert relative paths in your CSS files if the location of the minified files is different from the source file. It also fixes relative paths inside @imported files, when their content is included in the main minified code.

[jfoclpf]

Do you need to include the CSS.php if you just want to minify JS? Is there any means to make it lighter for some purposes?

[matthiasmullie]

If you're only minifying JS, you don't need to include CSS.php. And the other way around.
And if really needed: as long as the code doesn't have to thrown any exceptions, you could also not include those exception files.

[AubinMahe]

I have this error, why?

Call to undefined function MatthiasMullie\PathConverter\mb_substr()

Response : sudo apt install php7.2-mbstring

[reardestani]

we can also use this site: https://php-download.com/package/matthiasmullie/minify

Then we can simply require one file sth like: require_once $path . '/vendor/autoload.php';

[nileio]

@matthiasmullie thanks for the library .. if i only use it to minify CSS, do I need to include data/js directory?