A PHP based HTML minifier that's designed to be simple. It offers built in support for Laravel 5, providing both a service provider and facade. Additionally, it is configurable to allow for compile-time minification of blade template files.
You can install Miniphy using composer. Just run the following command to get the latest version:
$ composer require jrhenderson1988/miniphy
Or you can add it manually to your composer.json file and run composer update.
{
"require": {
"jrhenderson1988/miniphy": "^1.0"
}
}
If you're using Laravel, don't forget to add the MiniphyServiceProvider to your config/app.php.
// ...
Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider::class,
/**
* Package Service Providers...
*/
Miniphy\MiniphyServiceProvider::class,
// ...
If you want to use the Facade, make sure you add it to your aliases in config/app.php.
// ...
'Validator' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator::class,
'View' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\View::class,
'Miniphy' => Miniphy\Facades\Miniphy::class,
],
It's pretty easy to use Miniphy, in fact it's just a case of creating a Miniphy instance and calling the html method to create a HTML driver to be used for minifying HTML. You can then call the minify method on the resulting driver with some content and it's minified content will be returned:
use Miniphy\Miniphy;
$content = '<html> <body> <p> Your HTML content </p> </body> </html>';
$miniphy = new Miniphy();
$minifiedContent = $miniphy->html()->minify($content);
For convenience, you may also pass your HTML content to the html method and the minified content will be returned. Under the hood this will create a HTML driver and call it's minify method.
use Miniphy\Miniphy;
$content = '<html> <body> <p> Your HTML content </p> </body> </html>';
$minifiedContent = (new Miniphy())->html($content);
Miniphy's HTML minification allows for 3 different modes: soft, medium and hard.
- Soft (default): This mode will leave a single space between HTML elements when removing whitespace. This is the safest mode to use and will be the least likely to cause problems.
- Medium: This mode will remove all whitespace around block level and undisplayed elements, but preserve a single space around inline elements such as
span,aetc. Bear in mind that it's possible to make typically inline elements behave like block elements using CSS, so this mode may have unwanted side-effects if doing so. - Hard: This is the most aggressive mode and will remove whitespace around all elements.
You can easily set the mode by calling the chainable setHtmlMode method on the Miniphy instance. There is also a htmlMode method that can be used to get or set the HTML mode, when provided with a parameter, this method will return the Miniphy instance for chaining. Without a parameter, this method will return an integer value representing the mode.
use Miniphy\Miniphy;
$miniphy = new Miniphy();
// Soft mode
$miniphy->setHtmlMode(Miniphy::HTML_MODE_SOFT);
// Set medium mode and minify the provided HTML content
$miniphy->setHtmlMode(Miniphy::HTML_MODE_MEDIUM)->html(' HTML CONTENT ');
// Set hard mode and minify the content using the htmlMode method
$miniphy->htmlMode(Miniphy::HTML_MODE_HARD)->html(' HTML CONTENT ');
When you've set up the package correctly in Laravel you can use Miniphy very easily, either through using the Facade, dependency injection or you can get an instance of Miniphy from the IoC container. Alternatively, you may enable compile-time Blade optimisation through the settings to automatically minify your blade templates when they're generated:
$minified = Miniphy::html(' Your HTML content ');
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Miniphy\Miniphy;
class MyController extends Controller
{
public function myMethod(Miniphy $miniphy)
{
return $miniphy->html(' Your HTML content ');
}
}
$miniphy = app('miniphy');
$minified = $miniphy->html(' Your HTML content ');
If you want your Blade templates to be minified at compile time you may enable compile-time blade optimisation through the settings.
In config/miniphy.php
<?php
return [
// ...
'blade' => true,
// ...
];
Important Note: Laravel caches the Blade templates after they've been compiled. If you find that your views are not being minified after enabling blade optimisation you may need to run
php artisan view:clear. This will clear the view cache and the templates will be re-compiled. Similarly, if you want to disable Blade optimisation, you will need to run this command to remove the cached, minified views.
- When reserving PHP tags, allow for short opening tags
- When reserving PHP tags, take into account short echo style tags
<?= $value ?> - Add support for minifying inline CSS.
- Add support for minifying inline Javascript.