Easily Gzip your production application's HTML output with the Gzip Component Plugin
I was attempting to optimize some small sites according to what YSlow said was inefficient, and saw some code at debuggable.com that mentioned gzipping html output. So I wrapped that into a method in the AppController and used it in Production.
Not happy with copy-pasting that one method each and every time, I refactored it into a Component (woo-hoo CakePHP Components!), which I've just now refactored as a plugin. Thats a lot of refactoring.
This plugin only works on HTML, so YMMV.
[Using Composer]
Add the plugin to your project's composer.json - something like this:
{
"require": {
"josegonzalez/cakephp-gzip": "dev-master"
}
}
Because this plugin has the type cakephp-plugin set in it's own composer.json, composer knows to install it inside your /Plugins directory, rather than in the usual vendors file. It is recommended that you add /Plugins/Upload to your .gitignore file. (Why? read this.)
[Manual]
- Download this: https://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-gzip/zipball/master
- Unzip that download.
- Copy the resulting folder to
app/Plugin - Rename the folder you just copied to
Gzip
[GIT Submodule]
In your app directory type:
git submodule add git://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-gzip.git Plugin/Gzip
git submodule init
git submodule update
[GIT Clone]
In your plugin directory type
git clone git://github.com/josegonzalez/cakephp-gzip.git Gzip
In 2.0 you need to enable the plugin your app/Config/bootstrap.php file:
CakePlugin::load('Gzip');
If you are already using CakePlugin::loadAll();, then this is not necessary.
Include the component in your controller (AppController or otherwise):
<?php
App::uses('Controller', 'Controller');
class AppController extends Controller {
public $components = array('Gzip.Gzip');
}
?>At this point, everything should theoretically work.
Due to the way CakePHP does output buffering, this will only work when debug is less than 2.
- Gzip more than just HTML
- Other, configurable methods of compression
- Turn off compression via a url param or a secret url
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