Question

I want to compress my html/js code when I get response from front controller in zend or before the content is sent to the client.

When I view this code in view source it shows all the code with spaces not like in Google.

is there a way to achieve this

Answer 1

You can create a plugin that runs during dispatchLoopShutdown from where you can get the body of the response, manipulate it and then set the body after minifying it.

Here is an example:

<?php

class Application_Plugin_ShrinkSource extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
    public function dispatchLoopShutdown()
    {
        // get the output that will be sent to the client
        $body = $this->getResponse()->getBody();

        // remove extra whitespace, and other cleanup
        $body = someFunctionToRemoveWhitespace($body)

        // set the modified content back to the body
        $this->getResponse()->setBody($body);
    }
}

In your bootstrap you can register the plugin like

Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()
    ->registerPlugin(new Application_Plugin_ShrinkSource());