I've looked all over, but I haven't been able to find a good source explaining how to use gzip compression on php files.

I know that my server can do it, because I have a perl based forum that uses gzip compression, which is noticeable, and the gzip test page said it was working. But whatever I try for my own pages, it just doesn't seem to work.

Any tips?

Hello and Welcome to GIDForums™ xeno|oreo. What have you tried? I usually start with PHP.net.

Right at the top:

Now check the page witht the gzip tool.

HTH,
Mark

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Awesome... it worked

I knew it was probably really simple... but I couldn't find anywhere that simply said what it was without going overly in depth. Ah well... I guess now I both know a lot about compression too, along with how to actually do it.

Thanks very much.


Only one question... I am using the gzip code just once on the index page, as the content is loaded in on an include system. Will the content pages also be compressed, or will I have to include the gzip code on all of them too?

Well, it appears to be compressing everything, like I had thought and hoped

Anyways, thanks for the tip

*whistles... nice* Gonna save a lot of bandwidth and page loading time
Size, Markup (bytes) 158,665
Size, Compressed (bytes) 12,759
Compression % 92.0