Question

I’m saving contents of a particular div in mysql database as html elements.
So the html elements content includes many elements such as:

<div id="div0" class="box" style="z-index: 2; width: 1689px; height: 1013px;">
   <img style="margin: 0px; position: relative; display: block; height: 550px; width: 638px; top: 0px; left: 0px;">
</div>

Is there any way to reduce the data for efficiently storing in mysql database.

Such as any php or javascript functions to compress before saving to db.

Answer 1

You could compress the string before saving it to the database using gzcompress()/gzuncompress() PHP functions or you can do it with mysql using COMPRESS()/UNCOMPRESS() in your queries – but unless you have very much data I would not recommend this.

You win some harddisk space, but you lose a lot of transparency (search, edit, convert, migrate…)