Question

I know JavaScript or CSS for expample can be “compressed“, “simplified” in order to be loaded faster. After simplifying they are difficult to be read by humans… and this is exactly what I need.
Is there anyway to make it automatically? Rename all variables to short random strings and make it all hypercompressed. I don’t think it is a fool thing because I have seen this lot of times in javascript. The idea is to conserve the original source and upload the minified one.

Answer 1

If you want to compress it, this is basically useless, since you have it on the server and only the output gets transferred to the client.

If you want to make the code more difficult to read for other human beings, you’re looking for something which is called an obfuscator.

There are a few php obfuscator engines out there, p.e.

• http://www.codeeclipse.com/
• http://www.truebug.com/
• http://www.raizlabs.com/softwarephpobfuscator/