Category: Laravel, PHP, api

Dealing with large data often we required to compress/decompress the data to reduce some bandwidth on client-server communications. Mostly to avoid large responses on ajax calls we required to follow compression techniques to maximize the application performance. There are two popular algorithms available to achieve this GZip and Deflate.

In this article, we going to use gzencode() inbuilt PHP function to compress the response data.

Based on our use cases either we use a cache mechanism or data can be stored and served in compression format for optimal usages.
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