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Web Optimizer Plugin
Does anyone have any interest in throwing together a little plugin for the Web Optimizer . It’d be nice to have Textpattern listed under “Supported systems”.
I got the Web Optimizer setup on my server, but the last step is to integrate with your chosen php app, and that’s where I gracefully bow out.
Here is the instructions for the last step. Could this be made into a plugin of sorts without modifying core files?
How to modify your PHP file
Let's say we are modifying the wp-blog-header.php of a Wordpress blog. (This is just an example: if you want to add Web Optimizer to Wordpress you can use the Web Optimizer WP plugin). At the very top of the page you might see something like this:
<?php
if (! isset($wp_did_header)):
?>
We need to add in the Web Optimizer code before that. So you would add this to the very top of the page:
<?php
require('/PATH/TO/web-optimizer/web.optimizer.php');
?>
Finally, we must then add one more line of code to the very bottom of the page as follows:
<?php
$web_optimizer->finish();
?>Last edited by danwoodward (2009-04-27 18:19:17)
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#2 2009-04-27 17:36:16
- TheEric
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- From: Wyoming
- Registered: 2004-09-17
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Re: Web Optimizer Plugin
Why? Mod_gzip does an excellent job without resorting to processor intensive PHP.
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<txp:php>
require('/home/6440/domains/downtownmusic.dwstudio.org/html/web-optimizer/web.optimizer.php');
</txp:php>[…]
<txp:php>
$web_optimizer->finish();
</txp:php>Add this to the start and the footer of your page templates, respectively. Ready? Now add Textpattern CMS to the list of supported CMSs.
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Right, ok, with that said, and TheEric’s comment, is there actually any validity to any of the features of the Web Optimizer that aren’t already met by mod_gzip (or “php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler” if mod_gzip module is not on the server)? I mean is there a need for minified HTML if its gzipped?
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Guys. I’m glad that you are interested in Web Optimizer. It does not only gzip (but gzip via .htaccess directives — of course they are the best choice). If Apache doesn’t support mod_deflate + mod_filter / mod_gzip PHP does all dirty work. Initiall yproject was based on PHP Speedy but right now it differs by 90% from this plugin.
Also it merges ‘on fly’ all CSS / JS files and do some CSS Sprites (really innovative technique, I haven’t seen any other working example). Also it can add unobtrusive JS load… And so on. So it is a complex tool to speed up your website at maxium (based of course on YSlow, etc).
I will be happy if anybody can participate somehow in testing & development. You can contact me at
http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/
P.S. you need to include call to Web Optimzier main file (web.optimizer.php) before starting to output HTML and $web_optimizer->finish() right after all content is formed. Web OPtimzier will parse HTML and do it’s work the best.
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Used wet’s advice but get this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function finish() on a non-object in /home/u71717/site.ru/www/textpattern/publish/taghandlers.php(3097) : eval()’d code on line 2
Earlier web-optimisator was installed succesfully…
Providing help in hacking ATM! Come to courses and don’t forget to bring us notebook and hammer! What for notebook? What a kind of hacker you are without notebok?
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Re: Web Optimizer Plugin
Guys! New version (in SVN) now supports Textpattern. But you can wait for approved 0.4.6 release — and download it. It will be tested through default Textpattern website.
I’ve noticed that CSS are combined somehow with PHP help. It’s very sad… It should be a static file, not dynamic one — we can put down the server w/o any caching headers for dynamic CSS file…
So Web Optimizer now handles this case properly. Also it automatically updates index.php with directives — you should only make index.php writable for it.
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Just a note, although textpattern does have the default option of storing the css file in the database, I never use that functionality. It just doesn’t make sense, for editing or performance. I would venture to say that a lot of txp devs and designers keep their css files static, along with their js.
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That’s why rvm_css was created.
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#10 2009-05-14 04:29:17
- TheEric
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- From: Wyoming
- Registered: 2004-09-17
- Posts: 566
Re: Web Optimizer Plugin
I personally don’t see the use in this. It might save a few ms here and there, but ultimately at the expense of server CPU. PHP isn’t all that efficient, and adding another layer of processing on top of everything else is a recipe for inefficiency. Stick with mod_gzip and you’ll be better off.
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@TheEric: I’m very sorry if you don’t know about clientside optimization. It’s not just GZIP. Please, Yahoo! published their rules — and almost all of them are implemented in Web Optimizer
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Default CMS can be accelerated by 3-5 times only in a few clicks. And this is reality. Web Optimizer adds about 3-5% to the current HTML page generation time (after all caching files have been created) but it’s resulted in 1-5s gain for users for each page. This is especially important for e-commerce websites where every ms can be valuable.
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#12 2009-05-21 12:58:18
- TheEric
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- From: Wyoming
- Registered: 2004-09-17
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@sunnybear: at the expense of CPU cycles. Yes yes. We know this already.
TXP isn’t bloated like WP and doesn’t require these cute little tricks.
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