Re: Cool PHP Tricks/Features ?

George Whiffen wrote:

1. My biggest concern is the slowest user i.e. at the end of a modem on the other side of the planet. I thought they would almost certainly have modem compression so doing our own compression doesn't really help them at all i.e. actual download speeds stay the same, it's just we/they do the work rather than the modems.

Have you tried it?

In summary, I can't agree more that all pages should be compressed, but don't feel it should be our job. Maybe I'm wrong and this is another case of the poor old application developer having to do all the ***** work, just because the rest of the computing industry is too busy counting its profits to do its own job properly ;).

Apache isn't making any profits directly from its technology, but there is a mod_gzip module for Apache. Why is it so hard to put in *one line* of code (probably in an include file?) Why do you consider this "all the **** work"? You probably spend more time fiddling with TABLE CELLPADDING than you would on putting this line in one place, but you seem to think it's *another burden*. I look at it the other way - I love having more things under my control, and regardless of whether a webserver has configured outgoing compression or not, I can control it.

What's everyone else think? See above. :)

Michael Kimsal http://www.logicreate.com 734-480-9961