Html compression help!

[msimonds]

One of the scripts that I developed at work pulls data from a file and creates a hotels listing page. Some of the pages are large due to the amount of hotels in a given city.

My boss wants me to compress the html and I have no idea on how to do it, I did some reading over at php.net

The contents of the hotels is done in the following code:

$hotels_html .= "
                    <p><strong><a href=\"$Tencoded-".urlencode(strtolower($S))."-hotel$hotel_id.html\">$hotel_name</a></strong><br /><br />
                    $image_path$hotel_desc. $java<br />
                    $hotel_address, $hotel_city, $hotel_state $hotel_zipcode<br />
                    $hotel_phone<br />
                    <hr size=\"-1\" color=\"#C0C0C0\"></p>";

is the best thing to do this:

<?php

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

?>

any ideas or thoughts would help!!

Thanks in Advance

Mike

[gardnc]

Mike,

If the problem is that there are so many records returned on some pages that they are too long loading, then you should break your SQL return into multiple pages and display 1 of 23, etc. and links to load the other pages. Or return it with an alpabetic selection where they can get all the "A"s or all the "D"s.

There is no way to compress an html page that I'm aware of.

Larry

[Weedpacket]

The least intrusive way of getting output compression (assuming you're using Apache) would probably be to install mod_gzip (I think Apache's web site has an entry for it in its list of modules; Google around if it's not.)

[msimonds]

Thanks for the answers and sorry that I did not reply... I subscribed to this thread but the emails must not be getting through

I will look into mod_gzip