I'm not quite sure what this 'caches' (sorry bit of a nube!)..

Does it cache templates such as postbit, threadbit etc etc? Or does it cache whole pages?

In simple terms how does this save resources or speed things up?

What is the best thing to look out for once it's installed to 'see' if it's having any impact? Speed when server loads are up or speed in general?

Sorry for the newbie-type questions - and thanks for what seems like will be a very useful hack :)

Yes. Can you help?

-/home/.../forums/templates/
-/home/.../forums/templates/index.html
-/home/.../forums/template_cache.php

Do you have this structure?

From your error messages it looks like template_cache.php is not found.

It saves all the templates needed for one page (eg. showthread.php) in one file and saves the database query that would be needed to get them. You can also save certain sized templates seperately and thus avoid the eval() call. It both lowered page creation time and server load for me.

Thanks Orban - I'm beginning to notice a speed difference now I guess the caching is happening.

Well done on a great hack!

[QUOTE=orban]-/home/.../forums/templates/
-/home/.../forums/templates/index.html
-/home/.../forums/template_cache.php

Do you have this structure?

Ok got it now! I had put the templates_cache.php file in my templates folder instead of just the forums folder. It was saved successfully when I turned it on. Now we will see what it does.

Thanks so much for this and your quick responses.

Yeah, it's not in the templates folder :)

I love this hack. It has helped my load times tremendously. I only wish I could use the option to seperate the files into smaller bits but I have to many hacks installed the add template info on the fly.

Yeah, it's just not possible then. Unless you know enough PHP to replace the str_replace with a $temp_variable = ... and then add $temp_variable to the template...

The hack is working perfectly with vbSEO. :)

Works great, thankyou! ^^