Have you tried with ob_gzhandler?
<?php
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
?>
<html>
<body>
<p>This should be a compressed page.</p>
</html>
<body>
Tip: Sometimes is pretty tricky to detect if the web is send compressed or not, i use firefox's firebug plugin, i tested a php file without compression and with compression and compare the size, in my case, the difference was 1mb (non compressed) and 56kb compressed.
Or in your .htaccess
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</IfModule>
what about for the stylesheet and the javascripts? i was figuring it would be more of an .htaccess thing. i will try this though.
As far as i can see that is not giving me any results.
all that did was make the page output the sourcecode minus the php. btw, i appreciate the help. thanks for tyring to help me out
Make sure to check the browser supports gzip compression: <?php if (substr_count($_SERVER[‘HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING’], ‘gzip’)) {ob_start(“ob_gzhandler”);} ?>
Why not just using the php.ini configuration
zlib.output_compression = 1?