In `groupsConfig.php`, usually you specify source file paths using strings like `/path/to/file.js` or `//js/file1.js` (Minify expands this to `"{$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/js/file1.js"` ).

Instead of a string, you may substitute an instance of class `Minify_Source`. This allows you to customize how minification is applied, and/or pull content from a non-file location (e.g. a URL).

### Example: filepath

In the `$spec` array, set the key `filepath` to produce a source based on a file path:

```php
$src1 = new Minify_Source(array(
    'filepath' => '//js/file1.js',
));
$src2 = new Minify_Source(array(
    'filepath' => '//js/file2.js',
));

return [
    'js' => [$src1, $src2]
];
```

Note the above is functionally identical to:
```php
return [
    'js' => ['//js/file1.js', '//js/file2.js'],
];
```

### Example: Specify a different minifier or none at all

To change minifier, set `minifier` to a [callback](http://php.net/manual/en/language.pseudo-types.php)`*` or the empty string (for none):

**`*`Prepare for `groupsConfig.php` to be executed more than once.** (This is likely if you're using the functions in `/min/utils.php`.) In practice this just means making sure functions are conditionally defined if they don't already exist, etc.

```php
$src1 = new Minify_Source(array(
    'filepath' => '//js/file1.js',
    'minifier' => 'myJsMinifier',
));
$src2 = new Minify_Source(array(
    'filepath' => '//js/file2.js',
    'minifier' => '', // don't compress
));
```
In the above, `JmyJsMinifier()` is only called when the contents of `$src1` is needed.

**`*`Do _not_ use `create_function()` or anonymous functions for the minifier.** The internal names of these function tend to vary, causing endless cache misses, killing performance and filling cache storage up.

## Non-File Sources

You're not limited to flat js/css files, but without `filepath`, the `$spec` array must contain these keys:

  * **`id `** a unique string id for this source. (e.g. `'my source'`)
  * **`getContentFunc `** a [callback](http://php.net/manual/en/language.pseudo-types.php) that returns the content. The function is only called when the cache is rebuilt.
  * **`contentType `** `Minify::TYPE_JS` or `Minify::TYPE_CSS`
  * **`lastModified `** a timestamp indicating when the content last changed. (If you can't determine this quickly, you can "fake" it using a step function, causing the cache to be periodically rebuilt.)

### Example: Content from a URL

Here we want to fetch javascript from a URL. We don't know when it will change, so we use a stepping expression to re-fetch it every midnight:
```php
if (! function_exists('src1_fetch')) {
    function src1_fetch() {
        return file_get_contents('http://example.org/javascript.php');
    }
}
$src1 = new Minify_Source([
    'id' => 'source1',
    'getContentFunc' => 'src1_fetch',
    'contentType' => Minify::TYPE_JS,    
    'lastModified' => ($_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] - $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] % 86400),
]);
```

If you know that the URL content only depends on a few local files, you can use the maximum of their `mtime`s as the `lastModified` key:
```php
$src1 = new Minify_Source([
    'id' => 'source1',
    'getContentFunc' => 'src1_fetch',
    'contentType' => Minify::TYPE_JS,
    'lastModified' => max(
        filemtime('/path/to/javascript.php')
        ,filemtime('/path/to/javascript_input.css')
    ),
]);
```

## Performance Considerations

Be aware that all the code you put in `groupsConfig.php` will be evaluated upon every request like `/min/g=...`, so make it as light as possible.

If you wish to keep `groupsConfig.php` "clean", you can alternately create a separate PHP script that manually sets up sources, caching, options, and calls Minify::serve().

```php
// myServer.php
/**
 * This script implements a Minify server for a single set of sources.
 * If you don't want '.php' in the URL, use mod_rewrite...
 */

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// setup Minify
$cache = new Minify_Cache_File();
$minify = new Minify($cache);
$env = new Minify_Env();
$sourceFactory = new Minify_Source_Factory($env, [], $cache);
$controller = new Minify_Controller_Files($env, $sourceFactory);

function src1_fetch() {
    return file_get_contents('http://example.org/javascript.php');
}

// setup sources
$sources = [];
$sources[] = new Minify_Source([
    'id' => 'source1',
    'getContentFunc' => 'src1_fetch',
    'contentType' => Minify::TYPE_JS,
    'lastModified' => max(
        filemtime('/path/to/javascript.php'),
        filemtime('/path/to/javascript_input.js')
    ),
]);
$sources[] = '//file2.js';
$sources[] = '//file3.js';

// setup serve and controller options
$options = [
    'files' => $sources,
    'maxAge' => 86400,
];

// handle request
$minify->serve($controller, $options);
```