[FIXED] How do I compress HTML in laravel 5

Issue

In Laravel 4.0, I use the code below to compress the HTML laravel response outputs to browser, however it doesn't work in laravel 5.

App::after(function($request, $response)
{
    if($response instanceof Illuminate\Http\Response)
    {
        $buffer = $response->getContent();
        if(strpos($buffer,'<pre>') !== false)
        {
            $replace = array(
                '/<!--[^\[](.*?)[^\]]-->/s' => '',
                "/<\?php/"                  => '<?php ',
                "/\r/"                      => '',
                "/>\n</"                    => '><',
                "/>\s+\n</"                 => '><',
                "/>\n\s+</"                 => '><',
            );
        }
        else
        {
            $replace = array(
                '/<!--[^\[](.*?)[^\]]-->/s' => '',
                "/<\?php/"                  => '<?php ',
                "/\n([\S])/"                => '$1',
                "/\r/"                      => '',
                "/\n/"                      => '',
                "/\t/"                      => '',
                "/ +/"                      => ' ',
            );
        }
        $buffer = preg_replace(array_keys($replace), array_values($replace), $buffer);
        $response->setContent($buffer);
    }
});

Please how do i make this work in Laravel 5.

OR

Please provide a better way of compressing HTML in laravel 5 if any. Thanks in advance.

NB: I don't wish to use any laravel package for compressing html, just need a simple code that does the work without killing performance.

Solution

The recommended way to do this in Larvel 5 is to rewrite your function as middleware. As stated in the docs:

..this middleware would perform its task after the request is handled by the application:

<?php namespace App\Http\Middleware;

class AfterMiddleware implements Middleware {

    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $response = $next($request);

        // Perform action

        return $response;
    }
}

Answered By - darronz