A powerful PHP-based minification utility that intelligently reduces file sizes by eliminating unnecessary elements while preserving functionality. Designed with precision for developers who value efficiency and optimization. The utility is for reducing file sizes by removing comments, whitespace, and unnecessary characters from PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Vue, and CSS files. Especially useful for Claude AI projects to reduce token count and optimize usage of API pricing plans.
- Multi-language support: Minifies PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Vue, and CSS files
- Flexible processing modes:
- Single file minification
- Recursive directory processing
- File combination into a single output
- Laravel project optimization: Special mode with smart file filtering for Laravel applications
- Visual feedback: Console progress bar and detailed statistics
- Significant size reduction: Effectively reduces file sizes while preserving functionality
- Reduce API costs: When sharing code with AI models like Claude, smaller files mean fewer tokens and lower costs
- Improve load times: Minified files load faster in browsers and applications
- Laravel optimization: Intelligently processes Laravel applications with customized rules
- Preserve core functionality: Removes only non-essential elements while keeping code working
Simply place somewhere the minify.php file
# Minify a single file
php minify.php path/to/file.js
# Process an entire directory (recursive)
php minify.php path/to/directory
# Process a Laravel project
php minify.php path/to/laravel-app --laravel# Combine all files into a single output file
php minify.php path/to/directory --combine
# Specify custom output location
php minify.php path/to/file.js --output path/to/output.js
# Process Laravel project and combine into single file
php minify.php path/to/laravel-app --laravel --combine --output path/to/combined.phpphp minify.php assets/js/app.jsMinified: app.js
Original size: 124.53 KB
Minified size: 68.21 KB
Saved: 56.32 KB (45.2%)php minify.php public/cssScanning directory...
Found 8 files to process.
Progress: [████████████████████████████████████████████████] 100.0% (8/8) style.css
Minification Summary:
Total files processed: 8
Successfully minified: 8
Failed: 0
Total space saved: 247.85 KBphp minify.php app --laravelScanning Laravel project directory...
Found 87 PHP files to process.
Progress: [████████████████████████████████████████████████] 100.0% (87/87) UserController.php
Laravel Minification Summary:
Total files found: 87
Successfully minified: 78
Skipped (excluded): 9
Failed: 0
Total space saved: 398.64 KBphp minify.php src/js --combine --output dist/bundle.min.jsScanning directory...
Found 12 files to process.
Progress: [████████████████████████████████████████████████] 100.0% (12/12) utilities.js
Combination Summary:
Total files processed: 12
Successfully combined: 12
Failed: 0
Combined file size: 86.4 KB
Output file: dist/bundle.min.jsWhen working with AI assistants like Claude that charge by token count, reducing file size becomes essential for cost management. For example:
- Before minification: A PHP project with 20,000 tokens might cost $0.20 at $0.01/1K tokens
- After minification: The same project reduced to 12,000 tokens costs only $0.12
FileMinifier helps optimize your code sharing with AI assistants while maintaining all functional aspects of your code.
The Laravel mode intelligently processes files based on their importance:
- Keeps and optimizes: Controllers, Models, Services, Events, Listeners, etc.
- Excludes: Basic middleware, default providers, and other boilerplate files
- Removes boilerplate code: Empty constructors, basic property definitions, etc.
Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit pull requests with improvements or additional features.
MIT License