PHP Compressor

[Anon]

I am looking for a utility that will crawl a directory and compress all the php within that directory and place the compressed version in an output directory (Not Changing the live files)
The rules that I am looking for it to follow are as follows...
only parse within <? and ?>
Ignore anything within <PRE> and </PRE>
Remove all comments (anything after // to new line or between / and /)
Replace all new lines with a space
Replace all the tabs with a space
Then compress all multiple spaces into a single space.
Does any such utility exist? Or is there someone out there who has the time to write it to benifite the comunity?
TIA
Travis Harris

[theslinky]

Wow, some script!

I'll have the time to write the whole script if the "price is right" :-)

But I can give you some pointers on getting started if you code it yourself.

I doubt any such code exists because I don't think there is a large audience for such a program!

• use openddir/readdir/etc to "crawl"
• once you open a file, use ereg to get the <? ?> stuff
• use the ereg_replace to remove comments and extraneous whitespaces
• use ereg_replace or str_replace to replace tabs
• write it to a file
• run gzip using exec() or if you have zlib compiled w/ PHP, use one of the compression functions to compress the contents and then output to the new file.

-sridhar