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Asked: 2026-06-18T07:44:26+00:00

I am working in a MVC pattern situation here. I have index.php as a

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I am working in a MVC pattern situation here.

I have index.php as a base file, controllers located in /controllers/ directory. If you go to /stream/xIEjeEJWqs for example /controllers/streamcontroller.php will be executed.

index.php starts like this and it minifies an output that is about to be sent to browser:

<?php

function replace_tabs_newlines($content)
{
    require_once 'includes/min/lib/Minify/HTML.php';
    require_once 'includes/min/lib/Minify/CSS_MODIFIED.php';
    require_once 'includes/min/lib/JSMin.php';
    $content = Minify_HTML::minify($content, array(
        'cssMinifier' => array('Minify_CSS', 'minify'),
        'jsMinifier' => array('JSMin', 'minify')
    ));
    return $content;
}

ob_start('replace_tabs_newlines');
ob_implicit_flush(0);
...

So this code minfies whatever is being outputted, like this:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>
            Minifies..
        </title>

becomes <html><head><title>Minifies..</title>

So, problem is that streamcontroller.php has to output something as PNG, MP4, and other and when it readfile()-s a content, browser cannot recognize a content which is compressed by index.php in the beginning.

Extract from streamcontroller.php:

case "png":
  header('Content-type:image/png');
  header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));     
  readfile($file);
  exit;
break;

Now my questions are following:

  1. What would you recommend, taking out streamcontroller.php from MVC? Having streamer.php next to index.php for example?

  2. Adding check functionanility in index.php‘s replace_tabs_newlines($content) function to check if browser is pointing at streamcontroller.php and do not do a minify job?

  3. Maybe there is a way to stop ob_start()‘s callback from being exacuted while being about to output something? ie: before readfile() in streamcontroller.php?

  4. I will appreciate new ideas that are quite accepted in situations like this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about adding an ob_end_clean before the readfile

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