Elixir versioning public path

Question

I\'m trying to use Elixir\'s version() method with my \'public\' folder being public_html (instead of the default \'public\' method).

I version my css file, which produc

Answer 1

There is no option in elixir() for changing the public path:

function elixir($file)
    {
        static $manifest = null;

        if (is_null($manifest))
        {
            $manifest = json_decode(file_get_contents(public_path().'/build/rev-manifest.json'), true);
        }

        if (isset($manifest[$file]))
        {
            return '/build/'.$manifest[$file];
        }

        throw new InvalidArgumentException("File {$file} not defined in asset manifest.");
    }

There are only few options. You can change public path by adding this to App\Providers\AppServiceProvider

public function register()
    {
        $this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
          return base_path().'/public_html';
        });
    }

or you can create your own elixir function or a helper class

Example:

    function my_own_elixir($file,$path=public_path())
            {
                static $manifest = null;

                if (is_null($manifest))
                {
                    $manifest = json_decode(file_get_contents($path.'/build/rev-manifest.json'), true);
                }

                if (isset($manifest[$file]))
                {
                    return '/build/'.$manifest[$file];
                }

                throw new InvalidArgumentException("File {$file} not defined in asset manifest.");
            }

Then you can use this later in view:

{{my_own_elixir('/css/all.css',$path='path to public_html')}}

Hopefully in future version of elixir this future will be included. :)