On 28 August 2016 01:31:50 BST, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@xxxxxxxxx> >wrote: > >> Apache handles gzipping just fine. http://httpd.apache.org/ >> docs/current/mod/mod_deflate.html >> >> and my PHP handles static file serving only when needed, when >evaluating >> content and js for specific URLs >> >> >> I'm not sure why that would be required. Why doesn't the HTML >reference >> the assets required directly? >> > > >that would result in *way* too many HTTP requests dude ;) > You're doing it wrong >i'm thinking i evaluate what URL is called up in PHP, figure out what >cache What's wrong with front end evaluating what js it needs to request, like angular or react does? >files are needed (i now use multiple stages of cache files for some >stuff >like the main HTML template), and output a new "master cache file" that >is >a file that gets called up rather quickly with readfile() after a >file_exists(translateURLtoFilesystempath($untranslatedContentURL)) to >see >if regeneration for any particular URL is needed.. > >public function translateURLtoFilesystempath ($url) { > $r = $url; > $r = str_replace('/','---',$r); > $r = str_replace('?','-_-',$r); > $r = str_replace('&','__-',$r); > $r = str_replace('=','___',$r); > return '--_'.$r; >} >public function translateFilesystempathToURL ($path) { > $r = preg_replace ('#.*--_#', '', $path); > $r = str_replace('---','/',$r); > $r = str_replace('-_-','?',$r); > $r = str_replace('__-','&',$r); > $r = str_replace('___','=',$r); > return $r; >} > > > > >> >> and for noobish developers it might be very convenient to add this to >php >> readfile() afterall >> >> >> Convenient and right are often two different ways to solve a problem. >I >> try to not offer convenient solutions that are not right. >> > >yea, that's the C++ attitude ;) you do know C++ got dinosaured for a >*more >simple and intuitive* C# right? ;) That's not what happened at all. C++ is alive and well, C# has always served a different purpose > >> >> --jk >> >> On Aug 27, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@ >> gmail.com> wrote: >> >> yea ok.. "something upstream".. is that nginx easy to stack above / >next >> to / under apache2? i'm really used to apache2.. >> and for noobish developers it might be very convenient to add this to >php >> readfile() afterall.. >> >> and my PHP handles static file serving only when needed, when >evaluating >> content and js for specific URLs to fit in a common HTML site >template for >> instance.. >> you know of a better way? i'm all ears :) >> >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@xxxxxxxxx> >wrote: >> >>> Why is PHP handling static file serving? This is squarely outside of >it's >>> domain. Have nginx or something upstream handle gzipping content. >>> >>> --jk >>> >>> > On Aug 27, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Rene Veerman < >>> rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > >>> > eh no, i'm a big fan of caching output in js / json cache files :) >>> > but those still need to get gzipped... not just my main JS file, >also my >>> > photoalbum contents -> another 1Mb of JSON content... >>> > >>> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Ashley Sheridan < >>> ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> > wrote: >>> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On 27 August 2016 17:52:48 BST, Rene Veerman ><rene.veerman.netherlands@ >>> >> gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi.. >>> >>> >>> >>> First off, i love PHP. Many thanks for keeping it free too. >>> >>> >>> >>> However, i've noticed that gzipping the 1Mb of javascript that >my >>> >>> seductiveapps.com needs, takes a relatively long time (measured >over >>> a >>> >>> total page load time which i'd like to bring down from it's >current 10 >>> >>> seconds, about a second or even more is spent gzipping (by a >core i5 >>> >>> machine)).. >>> >> >>> >> Are you building the js each time it's requested? Have you >thought >>> about >>> >> building it as a deployment step for production? >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> At one time, i spent time building PHP code that cached the >>> >>> already-gzipped >>> >>> content and outputted that with just readfile().. But i never >got it >>> to >>> >>> work a second time, unfortunately.. >>> >> Why don't you want the web server to handle the gzip side of >things? It >>> >> would make more sense surely? >>> >> >>> >>> Could you pretty please add this to the core of PHP? Shouldn't >be that >>> >>> hard >>> >>> for the internals team right?.. >>> >>> >>> >>> Many thanks in advance for even considering to do this.. >>> >>> >>> >>> with regards, >>> >>> Rene Veerman, >>> >>> CEO + CTO of seductiveapps.com >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my >brevity. >>> >> >>> >> >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php