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Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2008-10-02T09:52:53+01:00

Comment by IceBurn ( http://iceburn.info )

Remember, first things first - if your problem is bandwith or simple want your pages to load faster, you definitely should use gzip...

...HOWEVER, if you have a site with an heavy load, and you're always running out of memory, than you don't want to use gzip.

The gzip process needs additional memory, so, compress your code instead (javascript, CSS, XHTML...).

It can be confusing to edit it after, but if you save two versions, one compressed and one regular, you've just make the day, and your server will say thanks! =)

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2008-10-01T13:39:50+01:00

Comment by mrpwnage ( )

I'm using a Windows end-to-end 64-bit system. That means Apache, PHP & MySQL are all 64-bit binaries. That being said, I can't run (can i?) mod_gzip because there is no x64 version. And now my question: I don't want to have to add this to every single page on the site manually, isn't there a way that I could set it to use gzip compression globally on the entire site indiscriminately? Perhaps through the httpd.conf or php.ini?

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2008-05-07T05:52:33+01:00

Comment by fedmich ( http://fedmich.com )

Thanks for this :) especially for the htaccess part

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2008-02-27T07:14:04+00:00

Comment by Steve ( http://www.china-channels.com )

Thanks Dave! Some very good stuff!

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2007-09-24T17:40:49+01:00

Comment by Tom ( http://tomschlick.com )

Thanks alot dave,
one of my clients was having trouble with their account taking up too much of the servers time and the server would suspend the account for 3 min. well their information needs to be accessed 24/7 so this cannot happen. well this worked very well and they havnt been suspened since i put that in. (it used to happen everyday at least once)

again, THANKS ALOT!

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2007-08-15T11:40:41+01:00

Comment by Anonymous ( http://thainy.com )

Seem like your Caching script is super-set of this script.
Both great script anyway. :)

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2007-08-10T02:17:54+01:00

Comment by Bay of Islands ( http://www.bayofislands.net/ )

Is this method the same as or better than mod_gzip in an htaccess file?

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2007-07-12T05:06:41+01:00

Comment by Phil Dufault ( http://dufault.info )

You can check if your site is now using gzip compress, and the compression ratio, using this online tool:
http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

For those of us using Firefox, here's an extension that can show this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2007-05-30T03:39:33+01:00

Comment by Ken Wong ( http://WebKing.hk )

Thank you very much!

I did follow your instruction to do that on http://WebKing.hk, but 1 silly question, how can I know that my site is gzip already?

Thank you!!

Comment on PHP, Gzip and htaccess

2007-05-12T06:09:32+01:00

Comment by Mike ( )

So do I!
You are my guru!