Compress HTML but ignore <script> and rewrite my PHP script.

Hello, I use this PHP function for compressing HTML: function compress_output($buffer) { $search = array( '/\>[^\S ]+/s', // strip whitespaces after tags, except space '/[^\S ]+\</s', // strip whitespaces before tags, except space '/(\s)+/s', // shorten multiple whitespace sequences '/<!--(.|\s)*?-->/' // Remove HTML comments ); $replace = array( '>', '<', '\\1', '' ); $buffer = preg_replace($search, $replace, $buffer); return $buffer; } It compresses HTML succesfully but it also breaks anything that's inside <script>. I need someone to tweak this script to compress HTML but ignore everything that's inside <script> tag. Please don't write your CV. This should take 15 seconds to fix for a experienced PHP developer.