How to compress JSON with PHP?

Question

I\'m writing a little analysis page which will help me hunt down bugs in an application. In essence it allows to visually compare actual data and log entries, plus perform a

Answer 1

You can compress the data with PHP’s output control. Just put this call at the start of your script before any output:

ob_start('ob_gzhandler');

Now any output will be compressed with either gzip or deflate if accepted by the client.