NAME

CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple - generate CSS sprites from a bunch of images

SYNOPSIS

say CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple->new->spritify('pics', 'pic1.png')->css;

# or

CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple->new
    ->spritify('pics', 'pic1.png')->spurt('sprite.css');

...
    <span class="sprite s-FILENAME-OF-PIC"></span>

  <link rel="stylesheet" property="stylesheet" href="sprite.css">
</body>
</html>

DESCRIPTION

Generate a CSS sprite using given image files. The result is a a single chunk of CSS code, with images base64 encoded into it.

METHODS

new

my $s = CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple->new;

Creates and returns a new CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple object. Takes no arguments.

spritify

$s->spritify( qw/list of dirs with pics or pics/ );
$s->spritify( qw/list of dirs with pics or pics/, [qw/ignore these/] );

Returns its invocant. Takes a list of paths and searches them for pics to use as sprites. The last element can be an arrayref, in which case, this will be a list of filenames (no directory portion) that will be ignored.

Will croak if no paths are given or it has trouble creating the temporary directory to assemble the sprite in.

css

say $s->css;

Returns CSS code of the sprite. Must be called after a call to "spritify"

spurt

say $s->spurt('sprite.css');

Write CSS code of the sprite into a file. Must be called after a call to "spritify"

SEE ALSO

Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack

REPOSITORY

BUGS

AUTHOR

LICENSE

You can use and distribute this module under the same terms as Perl itself. See the LICENSE file included in this distribution for complete details.

cpanm CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install CSS::SpriteMaker::Simple