On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:21 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:13 -0700, Christopher Watson wrote:
> > I've been coding with PHP for maybe a year. So I'm somewhat new to
> > it. But I've learned quickly, and created a fairly serious LAMP app
> > that is capable of returning large query results. During my
> > investigation into various means for incrementally reducing the
> > response sizes, I've discovered output buffering with a callback
> > function. So, as an experiment, I bracketed my includes of the
> > Fusebox files in index.php with ob_start('sweeper') and
> > ob_end_flush(), and placed the simple callback function at the top of
> > the file that performs a preg_replace on the buffer to strip all
> > excess space:
> >
> > function sweeper($buffer) {
> > return preg_replace("/\s\s+/", " ", $buffer);
> > }
> >
> > Results? Kinda nice! A large query result measuring over 900K of
> > HTML is reduced to 600K. With no change at the browser. Still valid
> > HTML, and the browser happily gobbles it up and displays it cleanly.
> > It's just 30% faster getting to me.
> >
> > Now, the question. Is this going to bite me in the ass? 'Cause right
> > now, it looks dang good to me. Great bang for the buck, as far as I'm
> > concerned. I've been churning it over in my head, and I don't see a
> > situation (certainly not in my particular app) where doing this
> > whitespace reduction is going to backfire. There isn't anything in
> > any of this that requires the contiguous non-word characters.
> >
> > I have a feeling though, that one of you more learned PHPers are going
> > to tell me exactly where my ass is gonna start hurtin'.
>
> Should be an issue
That should have read "shouldn't" :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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