Automatic minification of PHP script
Sometimes we need to shrink a large PHP script and compress several of them into one file. This comes in handy when we are creating a library that we will publish to the web and don't want anyone to interfere with it, or it is a useful script that we will be copying often and don't want to transfer too much data.
Sometimes we need to shrink a large PHP script and compress several of them into one file. This comes in handy when we are creating a library that we will publish to the web and don't want anyone to interfere with it, or it is a useful script that we will be copying often and don't want to transfer too much data.
A possible solution is to minify the code.
I have prepared an online tool for this (just paste the code and you will get back a minified version of it immediately).
The core of the minifier can be reduced to this minimum:
$file = 'StaticClass.php';
// Dgx's PHP shrinker
// PHP 4 & 5 compatibility
if (!defined('T_DOC_COMMENT'))
define ('T_DOC_COMMENT', -1);
if (!defined('T_ML_COMMENT'))
define ('T_ML_COMMENT', -1);
// read input file
$input = file_get_contents($file);
$space = $output = '';
$set = '!"#$&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}';
$set = array_flip(preg_split('//',$set));
foreach (token_get_all($input) as $token) {
if (!is_array($token))
$token = array(0, $token);
switch ($token[0]) {
case T_COMMENT:
case T_ML_COMMENT:
case T_DOC_COMMENT:
case T_WHITESPACE:
$space = ' ';
break;
default:
if (isset($set[substr($output, -1)]) ||
isset($set[$token[1]{0}])) $space = '';
$output .= $space . $token[1];
$space = '';
}
}
// write shrinked file
file_put_contents('min_'.$file, $output);
The core is the token_get_all() function, which parses PHP code into individual "atoms" (tokens) that can be uniquely identified and then ignored as needed.
For example (I used the Nette\Utils\Images method for the example):
