Making JavaScript codes is difficult and long. In Web projects, we try our maximum to minify JavaScript and CSS to serve content better. There are many sites on the Web that helps to compress/minify JS code. There is even a PHP Software to do this. In this post, I’ll tell you how to use the PHP jSqueeze library to minify JavaScript code.

Setting Up

You can get the class code of JSqueeze from here. Paste the code into a file called “min-js.php”. We will include this file to compress our code.

If in PHP, you are making a child class of a parent class in which both have the __construct function and you want to call both of them when the child object is made, it won’t work.

This is because, when you make the child class object, it’s construct function is called. The parent’s construct function is being overridden by the child. The PHP manual on OOP (Object Oriented Programming) notes this :