HTML compresson in zend - optimization

Question

I am new to zend. I am using gzip compression for my website. For this I have done the setting in php.ini for this. It is working fine.
Now the issue is, before compressing the html or better to say the response I want to remove all the blank spaces and new lines from the html, so that it will be compressed and then I will apply the gzip compression.
Now my question is - that when i am using the following plugin :
class My_Plugin_Plugin extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract {
public function postDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$response = $this->getResponse();
$body = $response->getBody();
$body = preg_replace('|\s+|', '', $body);
header('Content-Encoding: gzip');
$response->setBody($body);
}
}
,I get only the page view content, but it did not show the content of layout. How can i get the whole content of the page including layout content

Answer 1

You can use a controller plugin and hook up the postDispatch method and manipulate the response from there.
class MyPlugin extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
public function postDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$response = $this->getResponse();
$body = $response->getBody();
$body = preg_replace('|\s+|', '', $body);
$response->setBody($body);
}
}
Somewhere in your bootstrap:
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$front->setControllerDirectory('/path/to/controllers')
->setRouter(new Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite())
->registerPlugin(new MyPlugin());
$front->dispatch();
Note: since the space would get compressed anyway I don't think it's really worth the trouble