How would I...

[Shining Arcanine]

Write a script to detect whether or not the server gzips pages via php.ini and if it doesn't, enable it for the duration of the page's generation?

[Riklund]

the name?

I'm not sure what the configuration option in php.ini is called, but look up the functions ini_get() and ini_set() in the PHP manual. I think that those are the ones that you've got to use.

[Shining Arcanine]

It doesn't work. ^_^;;

Edit: I got it to work. Here is the code if anyone is interested:

if (!ini_get ('zlib.output_compression')){
if (ini_get ('output_handler')!='ob_gzhandler'){
ob_start(array('ob_gzhandler',1));
}} 

Unfortunately, I couldn't get zlib to work no matter what I tried. If anyone knows how to get it to work, tell me.