What is Assetic? ---------------- Assetic is an asset management framework for PHP 5.3. Assetic enables you to use a variety of third party tools that will help bring order to your application's Javascripts, stylesheets and images. How Do I Use Assetic? --------------------- There are two distinct approaches you can take when using Assetic: 1. Build, dump and output assets in PHP files that you reference directly from your templates 2. Defining assets in your templates ("on the fly") and use a loader to extract, dump and output them The first approach is simpler, but the second, with all its moving parts, offers more flexibility and opportunity for optimization. Next: [Building and Dumping Assets](build.md)