Building and Dumping Assets

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The is the simplest approach to using Assetic. It involves two steps:

 1. Create a PHP script in your web directory that uses the Assetic OOP API to

    create and output an asset.

 2. Reference that file from your template.

For example, you could create a file in your web directory at

`assets/javascripts.php` with the following code:

    use Assetic\Asset\AssetCollection;

    use Assetic\Asset\FileAsset;

    use Assetic\Filter\Yui\JsCompressorFilter as YuiCompressorFilter;

    $js = new AssetCollection(array(

        new FileAsset(__DIR__.'/jquery.js'),

        new FileAsset(__DIR__.'/application.js'),

    ), array(

        new YuiCompressorFilter('/path/to/yuicompressor.jar'),

    ));

    header('Content-Type: application/js');

    echo $js->dump();

In your HTML template you would include this generated Javascript using a

simple `<script>` tag:

    <script src="/assets/javascripts.php"></script>

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