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YUI compressor is very useful and powerful tool for javascript files compression. Many developers compress their static javascript files but what about files with PHP tags? With something like this: var username = "<?php echo $username; ?>"; or like this function() { var some_code_before; <?php if (Acl::check("finance")) { ?> Ext.addShortcut('finance'); <?php } ?> var some_code_after; } First example will work, but YUI will throw an exception on second. And also this piece of javascript code does not pass validation. Lets wrap PHP tags into comments: function() { var some_code_before; /*<?php if (Acl::check("finance")) { ?>*/ Ext.addShortcut('finance'); /*<?php } ?>*/ var some_code_after; } Now this code is valid. But lets try to feed it to YUI: # yui test.js function(){var b;Ext.addShortcut("finance");var a}; PHP tags are stripped away by YUI and

Good old days of PHP installation exclusively as an Apache module are gone. Most of the modern PHP installations interact with a web server via FastCGI protocol. For instance nginx webserver and php-fpm daemon. This means that certain apache SAPI functions are not available anymore. One of this functions is apache_request_headers() to dump http headers sent by client. From CGI specification rfc3875, section 4.1.18: Meta-variables with names beginning with "HTTP_" contain values read from the client request header fields, if the protocol used is HTTP. The HTTP header field name is converted to upper case, has all occurrences of "-" replaced with "_" and has "HTTP_" prepended to give the meta-variable name. According to the specification above i wrote a piece of the PHP code that dumps all headers sent by client under any PHP SAPI: foreach ($_SERVER as $key => $value) { if (strpos($key, 'HTTP_') === 0) { $chunks = e