Title: [Plugin: WP-HTML-Compression] Fix for pre-PHP 5.2
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-HTML-Compression] Fix for pre-PHP 5.2

 *  Resolved [tomweiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomweiss/)
 * (@tomweiss)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-html-compression-fix-for-pre-php-52/)
 * Works fine for me in pre-PHP 5.2 by changing the regex to the following:
 * $pattern = ‘/<(?P<script>script).*?<\/script\s*>|<(?P<style>style).*?<\/style\
   s*>|<!(?P<comment>–).*?–>|<(?P<tag>[\/\w.:-]*)(?:”.*?”|\’.*?\’|[^\'”>]+)*>|(?
   P<text>((<[^!\/\w.:-])?[^<]*)+)|/si’;
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-html-compression/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-html-compression/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Steven Vachon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prometh/)
 * (@prometh)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-html-compression-fix-for-pre-php-52/#post-2002140)
 * Cool, thanks; I appreciate it. Unfortunately, I currently don’t have the time
   to test this, so it’s possible that it won’t make it into the next release. I’ll
   see what I can do. Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-html-compression-fix-for-pre-php-52/#post-2002140)
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