yth (Yireo Template Helper)
Homepage: https://www.yireo.com/software/joomla-extensions/template-helper
Quick Description: A set PHP-scripts to aid in Joomla! template development
When building a Joomla! template, in general, you have the choice of modifying an existing Joomla! template, building a new template based upon a full-blown templating framework (WARP, Gantry, etcetera), or writing your own template from scratch. For this third alternative - writing your template from the base up - you might need simple PHP-functions that accomplish complicated tasks: This is where Yth comes to the rescue.
Yth offers a set of methods for common tasks: Building a splitmenu; Compressing CSS-files and JavaScript-files; Removing MooTools; Check for modules being enabled; Checks for the current page (isArticle, isHome); Image conversion to data-URIs.
Project-page: https://www.yireo.com/software/joomla-extensions/template-helper Usage: https://www.yireo.com/software/joomla-extensions/template-helper/usage