Is there a way I can compress a long string (e.g. a long JSON string) in PHP and then decompress it in JavaScript?
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Is there a way I can compress a long string (e.g. a long JSON string) in PHP and then decompress it in JavaScript?
A solution would be to use gzip compression of the whole output of your PHP script — and to let the browser handle the decompression, on the client-side.
If you are working with Apache, you can use
mod_deflate.Else, in PHP, you can use
ob_gzhandler— see the example on that manual page.Then, on the client-side (browser), you have nothing to do : the decompression will be dealt with automatically.
As a sidenote : using
mod_deflate, you can configure so CSS, Javascript, HTML (well, all data that are text) are compressed the same way — which will reduce the size of your pages, and speed up their loading a bit ; so, it’s worth investigating a bit 😉