“JavaScript packing” is method for reducing JavaScript files size by removing all unnecessary data (obfuscating) and compressing it’s contents. Most popular is Dean Edward’s packer, which transforms JavaScripts into something like this:

eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r){…

To start with, it’s very easy to have dynamically packed files (no one wants to pack them by hand, packed versions are only useful [...]

Zend Optimizer and PHP comments

February 4th, 2009

Zend Optimizer is nice product, but I can’t make it work with PHP’s Reflection. Reflection is very good functionality which allows script to read and extract information from it-self’s source code. For example, Zend_XmlRpc_Server component checks functions signatures (which are phpdoc comments) to determine if given parameter(s) is valid type, etc.
I have been using Zend [...]