Laravel Filter Helper - Compress HTML Output & Strip Comments

filters.php

<?php

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App::after(function($request, $response)
{
	// HTML Minification
	if(App::Environment() != 'local')
	{
		if($response instanceof Illuminate\Http\Response)
		{
			$output = $response->getOriginalContent();
			
			$filters = array(
				'/<!--([^\[|(<!)].*)/'		=> '', // Remove HTML Comments (breaks with HTML5 Boilerplate)
				'/(?<!\S)\/\/\s*[^\r\n]*/'	=> '', // Remove comments in the form /* */
				'/\s{2,}/'			=> ' ', // Shorten multiple white spaces
				'/(\r?\n)/'			=> '', // Collapse new lines
			);
			
			$output = preg_replace(array_keys($filters), array_values($filters), $output);
			$response->setContent($output);
		}
	}
});

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Really nice! I think the HTML Comments migth be neccesary either way.

Thanks for the alteration that allows for HTML comments.

One issue: Line 17 (shorten multiple white spaces) should be reduced to a space rather than nothing. The problem that I had with this was I had

 class="classOne  classTwo" //two spaces

and the white space reducer was reducing it down to

 class="classOneclassTwo"

thus breaking my theme.

thx for this

@RodrigoEspinosa we prefer to not use HTML comments especially since Laravel ships with blade you can just use blade comments that won't show up in the output {{-- My Coment --}}

@tylerssn are you sure you are having this problem? It's currently replacing it with one space like you suggest '/\s{2,}/' => ' ',

@AucT welcome and also thanks to the original contributor

Learning Laravel. Where do you put this to make it work?

Same question here:
Learning Laravel. Where do you put this to make it work?

@rotaercz @KIrkOlson
In Laravel 4.x you should put it into app\filters.php

In modern Laravel 5.x according to the docs you should put it into middleware (see "Before & After Middleware" section).

public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
        $response = $next($request);

        // HTML Minification
        ....................

        return $response;
}

Full Laravel 5.x Middleware to add to your projects, https://github.com/webciter/RemoveExcessWhitespaceMiddleware