Alain,
When PHP parses a file, it treats the stuff that's not in <?php?> blocks
as though each line were a print or echo statement. So your whole file
will be compressed and sent to the browser.
Regards,
Sean
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Alain Fontaine wrote:
> Rasmus,
>
> Thanks for the clarification; it seems obvious, too, that mixing compressed
> and non compressed content would be quite difficult to implement; at least
> it would partially compromise the speed/size gain because of added protocol
> overhead.
>
> Now, imagining that we have enabled compression by calling
> ob_start("ob_gzhandler"), what happens for a document that contains
> something along these lines:
>
> <!-- snip -->
> ...
> <?
> // Enable HTTP compression
> ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
>
> // PHP content
> $content = "This is some content.";
> ?>
>
> <div>This is a normal HTML section</div>
>
> <?
> // PHP content continues
> $content .= "And the rest of it.";
> echo $content;
> ?>
> ...
> <!-- snip -->
>
> In this particular case, what would be compressed ? As far as I have
> understood, nothing at all, because some part of the output is not "passing
> through" PHP, right ?
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Envoye : dimanche 4 fevrier 2001 14:34
> > A : Alain Fontaine
> > Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Objet : Re: [PHP] HTTP compression
> >
> >
> > > I've just started experimenting with ob_start("ob_gzhandler") a
> > bit, and I
> > > have found that if any output is generated before ob_start() is called,
> > > nothing at all gets compressed; if ob_start() is called before
> > any output,
> > > everything is compressed.
> > >
> > > Is this the case, I mean, is this "by design" ?
> >
> > Yes, it wouldn't really work any other way. You can't mix non-compressed
> > and compressed in the same request.
> >
> > -Rasmus
> >
> >
>
>
>
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