the php parser does not return any whitespace between the <?php ?> tags 
unless youn use print or echo.

i wouldn't use:
 > You should use $content = str_replace(" ","",$content);
 > I assume that works, there is probably something better than it too but
 > thats all I see at this hour.

as that would remove all your normal single spaces as well.

if this is really a an issue use regular expressions to replace 2 or 
more spaces with single spaces. see preg_replace()

josh




Matt Zur wrote:
> If you have a file includes IE:
> 
> include ("data.inc");
> 
> and have arrays n such with multiple php tags in that file, it will 
> produce alot of white space on the final output.
> 
> -Matt
> 
> Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but given the following 
>> PHP
>> file:
>>
>> <?php
>>    print("hello");
>>
>>
>>    #assume there are hundreds of blank lines just above this one.
>> ?>
>>
>>
>> all the browse will see is this (minus the dashed lines).
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> hello
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Matt Zur wrote:
>>
>>
>>> How do I remove the whitespace from a document? I consulted the manual
>>> and it said to use the trim function.  But in a large PHP document, with
>>> lots of fuctions etc in PHP... is there a simple way to compress the
>>> whitespace of the entire document?  Rather than going through each var
>>> and using the trim?  Like add a header at the top:  <?PHP
>>> compresswhitespace() ?>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have a 300k php document, won't the source code reveal (after the
>>> browser displays the page) a bunch of whitespace.  Doesn't this add to
>>> dl time and if so, how do I get rid of it.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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