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Mooff

10-05-2011 11:40 AM

That basecially means you have other issues on your board which you should adress. ;)

the google page speed tool lists them on the left site in separated in red-yellow-green

The red ones make the biggest impact. Go through them. One says for your site that you should enable browser caching so your users do not load images again on their second visit.

Next one are a lot of javascript files you have which you can compress (f.e. by using packed or minified javascript files instead of "readable code")

... and so on

Huge thanks to everyone who voted for this addon and let us win the MoTM. We love you. =)

Budget101

10-05-2011 04:04 PM

Quote:

The following dependencies were not met:

This product is not compatible with version 4.0.6 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.1.3)

Do you have a version compatible with 4.0.6?

*Tagged* - Can't mark it as installed- because it WONT, despite the fact that it's listed for

Quote:

vB Version: 4.x.x

Mooff

10-08-2011 06:27 PM

@Budget101

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osbes (Post 2233050)

Hello kingMOB,

the addon has internally vBulletin 4.1.3 and above as depency.

product-sprite-0.7.2.xml

Code:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.1.3" maxversion="" />

You can change this to

Code:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.8" maxversion="" />

or lower to run it with vBulletin 4.0.8.

I have set this thread to vB Version: 4.x.x, since it should work with 4.x.x theoretically (as far as i can see), but until now it wasnt independent and practically confirmed, thats why the minversion is currently set to 4.1.3, the lowest vBulletin version for which it was confirmed in a live system.

Best regards
Sebastian

Hope that helps. =)

Budget101

10-09-2011 12:52 PM

Yes! That helps Tremendously, Thank you very much Sir!

raymondblog

10-10-2011 01:20 PM

This mod says to support CDN.
Any idea on how to integrate it to MaxCDN?

owning_y0u

10-12-2011 06:03 PM

how to remove it? as it doesnt show the thread icons :-S

Crotan

10-12-2011 09:28 PM

Ugh VB sure doesn't make it easy on you. In 4.1.7 all custom avatars are duplicated and re-sized in a thumbs directory, and if you are running GD, you will lose all transparency with the re-sized thumbnails. Now I either have to re-size every members avatar to the same size that thumbnails are to retain transparency, and this mod's functionality

or

switch to Imagemagick, retain transparency and toss this mod aside. :(

Mooff

10-12-2011 10:04 PM

@owning_y0u
undo the template edits you made and everything is back to normal

@Crotan
I do not understand your point. This mod requires GD to be installed on your server, it does not require the vbulletin settings to be set on GD.
So keep GD installed, set vB to imagemagick and everything should be fine.

Btw. if 4.1.7 breaks the vb GD support, please post a bug report on jira about that issue.

Crotan

10-12-2011 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2256499)

@Crotan
I do not understand your point. This mod requires GD to be installed on your server, it does not require the vbulletin settings to be set on GD.
So keep GD installed, set vB to imagemagick and everything should be fine.

Btw. if 4.1.7 breaks the vb GD support, please post a bug report on jira about that issue.

Awesome news. I will do this soon.

Also, I'm not sure if it breaks GD support or if it's just that 4.1.7 has introduced something unnecessary that shows a limitation in GD?

Should GD be able to copy and re-size a GIF without losing transparency, because that is what happens in 4.1.7

See for clarification: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...=1#post2219470

universosymbian

10-13-2011 01:50 PM

1 Attachment(s)

hello

install the product and no improvement of performance in terms my website.

suggestion because it does not work on my site

image attached

I hope news thanks

universosymbian

10-13-2011 02:08 PM

can not make a version of its automatic change the templates?

becomes very difficult to make any changes in templates, Template Modification System is not good for my

Kolbi

10-14-2011 01:07 PM

Read! ;-) It's TMS compatible...

Kolbi

10-14-2011 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raymondblog (Post 2255564)

This mod says to support CDN.
Any idea on how to integrate it to MaxCDN?

Are your normal images integrated into MaxCDN? Then it should without doing anything.
Haven't tested but I guess it should.

FReeSTER

10-15-2011 05:42 AM

When is the update will be available? :D

universosymbian

10-15-2011 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FReeSTER (Post 2257389)

When is the update will be available? :D

I hope the author of this program that make it easier for novices

apaydin2148

10-15-2011 11:53 PM

When will next update be out?

MNNLeafre

10-19-2011 05:13 AM

How come this happens?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/10/32.png

Incase you don't get it, there's 3 icons in parts in one of the status icons

ofir24

10-19-2011 10:13 AM

you gave pictures but you didn't give the traffic info, you picture the forum on a diffrenet times, if you don't add traffic info etc, we couldn't be sure it's actually work.

MonkYZ

10-21-2011 02:55 AM

Great mod! Is there any chance for this to work with vBadvanced too?
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

MonkYZ

10-21-2011 03:23 AM

Hmm, on refresh sprites i am getting arround 2-300 of errors like this:

Quote:

/home/console/public_html/forum/les/darkvision/statusicon/category_forum_link.png (with bburl_path /forum ) does not exist or is not readable.

There is an error in the link, as i've noticed there is a strange "/les/" folder added inside, instead of "/cpstyles/". The correct URL should be like this:

Quote:

/home/console/public_html/forum/cpstyles/darkvision/statusicon/category_forum_link.png (with bburl_path /forum ) does not exist or is not readable.

How can i fix this?

Mooff

10-21-2011 12:56 PM

@MNNLeafre
Sprite doesn't match the css rules. Try the sprite refresh option.

@MonkYZ
please check your stylevar imgdir settings in the ACP. Make sure the folder there says cpstyles and not les

maxie

10-22-2011 02:25 PM

This product is not compatible with version 4.1.2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.1.3)

huhu i want to install in 4.1.2 but is not compatible

Mooff

10-22-2011 02:58 PM

@maxie

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osbes (Post 2233050)

Hello kingMOB,

the addon has internally vBulletin 4.1.3 and above as depency.

product-sprite-0.7.2.xml

Code:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.1.3" maxversion="" />

You can change this to

Code:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.8" maxversion="" />

Hope that helps. =)

PirateTinman

10-24-2011 09:39 AM

An issue I see with this mod is that is uses an un-official, and un-supported version of GD that you can only get with a lot of finecking about. Since GD is more or less dead, there will not be a new update of it, and would not be integrated with new PHP releases. So this would only work on very few websites.

I suggest to the creator if they want more usage of this hack, that they make it work with the supported version of GD, or convert it to work with Image Magic.

If this could be done, and it actually works, I would not mind supporting it for a very long time, since its one of the things that should speed up a website by a lot, and its the only thing Google is complaining about.

Mooff

10-24-2011 10:38 AM

@PirateTinman
What are you talking about?
This addon uses the GD version which is installed on your server. If you choose to install an un-official and un-supported version of GD on your server that is your choice.

This addon does not include, require or install an un-supported, un-official version of GD.

universosymbian

10-24-2011 06:37 PM

This mod is not working properly and does more pages fast, I think interest is

PirateTinman

10-24-2011 07:56 PM

@Moof
Not what I am saying at all.
The issue is that this does not work with GD version 2.0.34
If you have this version of GD it will not work properly, the forum icons get cut off at the bottom, but if you run a newer un-supported and more or less impossible to get version 2.0.36 it will work.

If you look back at other posts people are having the same issue, the image is getting cropped at the bottom, and they all seem to be running 2.0.34

So as far as I can tell, this mod only works with an un-supported version of GD, and the only way to get it working is to recompile PHP, something a lot of people do not want to do.

Mooff

10-24-2011 08:31 PM

For clarification - quote from the first page out of the FAQ:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osbes (Post 2219793)

Frequently Asked Questions

Question
My Icon (mostly the paperclip) looks like http://dl.dropbox.com/u/246391/Robin_result.png (it is stretched and vertical lines are added), what can i do?

Answer
I assume you use a GD Libary older than 2.0.36.

GD had a problem handling grayscale images with alpha channel correctly, which was fixed with GD 2.0.36 in the year 2007.

The solution is to update the GD-Libary to 2.0.36 (or later) or replace every file which uses "gray+alpha" with an version using "color RGBA".
I would advise to update the GD-Libary, cause there is also a serious security problem, that was fixed by Debian in the year 2009.

For the embed Version of GD within PHP, this issue is fixed since PHP 5.3.0.

I do not understand why you keep refering to the GD Version which was released 2007 as unsupported. I don't understand either why you refer to it as "impossible to get".

As for the "cut off at bottom" bug. I do not know what is the cause of that, but we have seen forums which run GD 2.0.34 which do not have this bug (those can be identified via the "grey-bug" this GD version has, see the quote if this is unclear).

And there are a lot of "as far as i know" "they all seem to" statements in your post which make me wonder why your are posting a bold statement like "this mod will only work on very few websites".

Mickie D

10-25-2011 10:38 AM

To be honest Moof

I keep checking back on this thread with the HOPE that you will support Image Magic

with image magick you do not need to re-compile anything if the version you are using (GD) is not supported.

It is by far superior in every way to GD.

Any website that is serious about images USES Image Magick.

We can only hope that this fantastic Mod - "that I voted for Mod of the month - even though I cannot use it :(" will one day support image magick

Mick

Mooff

10-25-2011 01:23 PM

What do you mean by not supported?

It does work with GD 2.0.34 and below. It's just that GD 2.0.34 has a grey-scale bug, which does affect like 1 out of 100 icons and can be solved by manually converting the icon to rgba.

In addition GD 2.0.34 has a security issue, therefore we advise to upgrade, but upgrading is not necessary for the addon to work.

Point is php has a GD libary included, so by far more servers will have gd than imagemagick. That's why the choice was made to go with GD.

Aside that there is a bug somewhere which causes a cutoff on some icons. But we do not know what the issue is there exactly and can't reproduce it on our server.

universosymbian

10-25-2011 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2261400)

IF YOU MAKE A VERSION OF THIS PRODUCT THAT WORKS WELL ............... THIS PRODUCT MUST BE WITHDRAWN FROM HERE

I will report

doctorsexy

10-29-2011 10:46 AM

Hi do you think this would benefit my site . i get 69 for the front page and 50 for the forum from page speed at the moment...

Mooff

10-29-2011 07:54 PM

This addon has no cms support per default. The cms/frontpage will look different for every site so a default version makes no sense. But the addon does offer a hook to manually add icons into the sprite so site owners can use it to manually include their customized homepage.

That aside on forumhome and forumdisplay you can get catch many icons and speed up the site. Though on forumhome you use a modifikation for additional forumicons which we do not support (again you could add those icons manually) but i do not understand why this modifikation is used and not the build in vb4 function to customize the standard icons (which we do support).

doctorsexy

10-30-2011 12:23 PM

just had a go the forum went up 8..looking good.. thanks.. just got to get my head round it... more questions to come...:D

temsamane

10-31-2011 07:53 PM

a great mod, if its working

thecore762

11-01-2011 01:05 AM

I am getting this error:

HTML Code:

47 The Ronin

0 custom icons added.

0 imageprefixes for forums found.

Processing post icons.

15 post icons found.

Adding sidebar icons.

121 icon candidates added.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-main.png.

98 icons added.

Creating sprite (width:1000px height:124px).



Warning: imagepng() [function.imagepng]: Unable to open '[path]/images/sprites/sprite-10-main.png' for writing: Permission denied in [path]/admincp/sprite.php on line 1620

Error occurred: Unable to save sprite in images/sprites/sprite-10-main.png.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-main_rtl.png.

98 icons added.

Creating sprite (width:1000px height:124px).



Warning: imagepng() [function.imagepng]: Unable to open '[path]/images/sprites/sprite-10-main_rtl.png' for writing: Permission denied in [path]/admincp/sprite.php on line 1620

Error occurred: Unable to save sprite in images/sprites/sprite-10-main_rtl.png.

CSS template successfully updated.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-forumdisplay.png.

0 icons added.

Sprite was not created.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-forumdisplay_rtl.png.

0 icons added.

Sprite was not created.

CSS template successfully updated.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-forumhome.png.

0 icons added.

Sprite was not created.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-forumhome_rtl.png.

0 icons added.

Sprite was not created.

CSS template successfully updated.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-showthread.png.

0 icons added.

Sprite was not created.

Starting with images/sprites/sprite-10-showthread_rtl.png.

0 icons added.

Sprite was not created.

CSS template successfully updated.

TeknoSounds

11-01-2011 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thecore762 (Post 2263320)

I am getting this error:

HTML Code:

Warning: imagepng() [function.imagepng]: Unable to open '[path]/images/sprites/sprite-10-main.png' for writing: Permission denied in [path]/admincp/sprite.php on line 1620

Error occurred: Unable to save sprite in images/sprites/sprite-10-main.png.



Warning: imagepng() [function.imagepng]: Unable to open '[path]/images/sprites/sprite-10-main_rtl.png' for writing: Permission denied in [path]/admincp/sprite.php on line 1620

Error occurred: Unable to save sprite in images/sprites/sprite-10-main_rtl.png.

Problem appears to be right here. Need to change permissions on the sprite folder to allow writing.

thecore762

11-01-2011 07:24 AM

It's working fine now, but still giving me the error.
Folder is 777.

tmiland

11-01-2011 01:33 PM

Hello,

i cannot for the life of me get this mod working... It's creating the images and all that,
but it make no difference to my site, what could be wrong?

Regards.

doctorsexy

11-01-2011 02:45 PM

How would i sprite the title image and logo as it wants a url..anyone ..thanks

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