Re: [PHP] Need a tool to minimize HTML before storing in memecache

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Daevid Vincent <[email protected]> wrote:

> We do a lot with caching and storing in memecached as well as local copies
> so as to not hit the cache pool over the network and we have found some
> great tools to minimize our javascript and our css, and now we'd like to
> compress our HTML in these cache slabs.
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> Anyone know of a good tool or even regex magic that I can call from PHP to
> compress/minimize the giant string web page before I store it in the cache?
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> It's not quite as simple as stripping white space b/c obviously there are
> spaces between attributes in tags that need to be preserved, but also in
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> words/text on the page. I could strip out newlines I suppose, but then do I
> run into any issues in other ways? In any event, it seems like someone
> would
> have solved this by now before I go re-inventing the wheel.
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> d.
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How about you just compress it? Gzip, bzip2, etc. Pick your favourite.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.compression.php

- Matijn