Question

I would like to copress my JavaScript and CSS files and I use a PHP file with the following code:

// compression.php
ob_start ( 'ob_gzhandler' );

$content = file_get_contents ( $_GET [ 'path' ] );
$extension = strtolower ( substr ( strrchr ( $_GET [ 'path' ], "." ), 1 ) );
header ( "Content-Type:" . ( $extension == 'css' ? 'text/css' : 'text/javascript' ) );
header ( "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" );
header ( "Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT" );
echo $content;

HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="compression.php?path=../assets/css/jquery-ui.css" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="compression.php?path=../assets/js/jquery.min.js">

Is this good way or not?

Answer 1

No it definitely is not.

What about compression.php?path=compression.php? One could view all your PHP and server files which is an severe security issue.

What’s more, the server will spend a lot of its power to compressing at each page request.

Why not just minify your code and save it statically instead. It will be much more effective.