After looking on Desilva's website about page compression (http://www.desilva.biz/php/zlib.html) I got into the idea of doing it on my own site. Making this work on a single php page was easy peasy but, I have recently had quite a time trying to get mod_gzip compression to work on my website as a whole rather than having to place this at the top of commonly used pages:


Since my domain is hosted virtually, I do not have access to the php.ini file nor the http.conf file in order to manipulate the settings. I quickly learnt that my best hope was to place the correct command into the .htaccess file. This wasn't as easy as it would sound as I had no idea how to do this. Days of searching on google and trying to quickly learn how it all worked ensued until I finally found the command I was looking for:
zlib.output_compression on

However, those in the know will probably be aware that this wouldn't work since it had a bit missing although just this command is sufficient for the php.ini. Since I knew the command I could refine my search to zlib.output_compression and .htaccess. I did finally find it or I wouldn't be posting this and it is:

php_flag zlib.output_compression on

And that is it...I did not set a compression level yet since I am happy that it is just compressed for the moment. Maybe I'll experiment that later on....