Question

Just a quick question, I have seen some web page if I click view page source, the html code is compressed, if I want my html code to be compressed like that, is there a function doing the compression or I need to use come compress tool to do it before the webpage is loaded on line? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I’m not a PHP/*nix guy, but since we have been chatting about it in comments, check these..

For PHP:

• http://davidwalsh.name/compress-xhtml-page-output-php-output-buffers

For Apache:

• http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/modules.html#Apache_GzipChain__compress_HTML__or_anything__in_the_OutputChain

• http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-gzip-compression/

Check this discussion as well:

• http://forums.macnn.com/79/developer-center/276604/compressing-html-output-with-php/