How can I compact my source code?

acidbox

I am looking for a program that takes my source code and turns it into 1 line of code and eliminates all the unnecessary white space for a production PHP script. The goal is to shrink the file size of my php files. Does anyone know of a program that does this?

Skaara

<?php
$data = file_get_contents('file_to_shrink.php');
$data = str_replace("\n"," ",$data);
$file = fopen('shrunk_file.php','x');
fwrite($file,$data);
fclose($file);
?>

You realize that doesn't make the program any smaller, right? It only makes the source code hard as hell to read...

Weedpacket

Indeed, that change only makes the code harder to read for a human: and only until a so-called "beautifier" is run over it.

Do you mean you want to reduce the amount of gratuitous whitespace in the output? You could experiment with [man]tidy[/man].

acidbox

I heard that if you take a 4000+ line PHP file and condense it down and remove all the "readable formatting", that the PHP processor can parse it faster. This is what I am trying to accomplish.

Is this true or false?

laserlight

I heard that if you take a 4000+ line PHP file and condense it down and remove all the "readable formatting", that the PHP processor can parse it faster.

That's true.

Look into one of the PHP optimisers out there by doing a search.