Source: https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/wiki/Compress-HTML-output
To remove useless whitespace from generated HTML, except for Javascript see [Regex Source] or just replace the $re
value:
$re = '%# Collapse ws everywhere but in blacklisted elements.
(?> # Match all whitespaces other than single space.
[^\S ]\s* # Either one [\t\r\n\f\v] and zero or more ws,
| \s{2,} # or two or more consecutive-any-whitespace.
) # Note: The remaining regex consumes no text at all...
(?= # Ensure we are not in a blacklist tag.
(?: # Begin (unnecessary) group.
(?: # Zero or more of...
[^<]++ # Either one or more non-"<"
| < # or a < starting a non-blacklist tag.
(?!/?(?:textarea|pre)\b)
)*+ # (This could be "unroll-the-loop"ified.)
) # End (unnecessary) group.
(?: # Begin alternation group.
< # Either a blacklist start tag.
(?>textarea|pre)\b
| \z # or end of file.
) # End alternation group.
) # If we made it here, we are not in a blacklist tag.
%ix';
$config['enable_hooks'] = TRUE;
// Compress output
$hook['display_override'][] = array(
'class' => '',
'function' => 'compress',
'filename' => 'compress.php',
'filepath' => 'hooks'
);
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
function compress()
{
ini_set("pcre.recursion_limit", "16777");
$CI =& get_instance();
$buffer = $CI->output->get_output();
$re = '%# Collapse whitespace everywhere but in blacklisted elements.
(?> # Match all whitespans other than single space.
[^\S ]\s* # Either one [\t\r\n\f\v] and zero or more ws,
| \s{2,} # or two or more consecutive-any-whitespace.
) # Note: The remaining regex consumes no text at all...
(?= # Ensure we are not in a blacklist tag.
[^<]*+ # Either zero or more non-"<" {normal*}
(?: # Begin {(special normal*)*} construct
< # or a < starting a non-blacklist tag.
(?!/?(?:textarea|pre|script)\b)
[^<]*+ # more non-"<" {normal*}
)*+ # Finish "unrolling-the-loop"
(?: # Begin alternation group.
< # Either a blacklist start tag.
(?>textarea|pre|script)\b
| \z # or end of file.
) # End alternation group.
) # If we made it here, we are not in a blacklist tag.
%Six';
$new_buffer = preg_replace($re, " ", $buffer);
// We are going to check if processing has working
if ($new_buffer === null)
{
$new_buffer = $buffer;
}
$CI->output->set_output($new_buffer);
$CI->output->_display();
}
/* End of file compress.php */
/* Location: ./system/application/hooks/compress.php */
$CI =& get_instance();
$buffer = $CI->output->get_output();
$search = array(
'/\>[^\S ]+/s', //strip whitespaces after tags, except space
'/[^\S ]+\</s', //strip whitespaces before tags, except space
'/(\s)+/s' // shorten multiple whitespace sequences
);
$replace = array(
'>',
'<',
'\\1'
);
$buffer = preg_replace($search, $replace, $buffer);
$CI->output->set_output($buffer);
$CI->output->_display();
Compatible with CI caching mechanism (compressed HTML is cached).
Same thing but with HTML Tidy (PHP 5 only):
$CI =& get_instance();
$buffer = $CI->output->get_output();
$options = array(
'clean' => true,
'hide-comments' => true,
'indent' => true
);
$buffer = tidy_parse_string($buffer, $options, 'utf8');
tidy_clean_repair($buffer);
// warning: if you generate XML, HTML Tidy will break it (by adding some HTML: doctype, head, body..) if not configured properly
$CI->output->set_output($buffer);
$CI->output->_display();
Reference: [[http://maestric.com/en/doc/php/codeigniter_compress_html]]
Jérôme Jaglale