Including Assets

As elaborated in Assets Management, Bonfire provides a simple assets system that was created to serve CSS/JS assets from anywhere and to easily handle browser caching/cache-busting with updated assets.

Linking to assets

Within your views you can link to assets anywhere within your project with the asset() or asset_link() helper function. asset_link() takes two arguments. The first is the path to the file to load. The first segment of this path must be one of the defined $folders in the configuration file Assets.php. The rest of the path would be based on the actual file structure within that location. For the App theme, a folder has been defined called app.

The second argument is the type of asset being loaded. Currently, it only supports css and js files.

<?= asset_link('app/css/admin.css', 'css') ?>
<?= asset_link('app/js/admin.js', 'js') ?>

The asset() function is similar, except it only returns the URL only.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?= asset('admin/css/admin.css', 'css') ?>" />
<script src="<?= asset('admin/js/admin.js', 'js') ?>"></script>

Configuration

Configuration of assets is detailed in the Assets Management page of Modules section.