I *does* continually screw over certain templates still..I have to save my forumhome_loggedinusers template each time I accidentally compress templates, otherwise it parses stuff a bit bodgily.

The bad templates array exist for a reason, add the offending templates to the array and it will skip them.

would be good if a list of bad templates could be added here

What I've noticed on my forums is all my avatars and picture attachments have gone a bit hay wire.

I now have to re-upload them as they are all buggered :)

Laters

Worth using on ragezone.com or will i get just tons of errors?

It is all reversible, the above person unfortunately has no idea what he is talking about; as this mod "only" modifies templates; and has no effects on attachments or avatars.

its worth it. definately

Installed.........


And DAMN.. its 3 times faster ^__^

http://forum.ragezone.com

First, Thank you for this hack. I think the idea is great.

However, I am having a minor problem. Some items (like in vbGarage 4.1.0) are not appearing the same as they did before. For example, a series of thumnbail photos used to wrap, and with the templates compressed they no longer wrap, which causes the user to have to horizontally scroll their browser.

I looked at the html before and after compression, and it appears that there was originally a series of spaces in between each <img> tag. With the spaces removed, IE will not allow them to wrap to the next line. Can the program just remove spaces after the first one? That way it is still compressing but not removing possibly necessary spaces.

Thanks
-V

Change

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Does it work now?

I finally got around to updating to 2.8 from 2.6 - so far, so good.

Relieved to see that the updates have calmed down somewhat.. ;)

Installed 5 minutes ago and working pretty good...

Even with the suggested fix, there does appear to be a slight issue with it taking away spaces that it shouldn't from a design point of view..

I noticed this one earlier this morning when I was fixing various bugs on my forum.

try using just

$search = array('/\s\s+/');

for some reason vbulletin uses tabs in various places.. that could be the problem..

Heya,

Cool hack, but when I compress the templates all my links become underlined, when they are not supposed tobe. Any ideas?

Nope, that isn't the problem.. :nervous:

I am worried by the "needed spaces" (for design, which should be replaced by some "&nbsp;") too. How did you manage your spaces problems, vissa ? Did you have to replace all the spaces by "&nbsp;" ? Or the Trigunflame tip made the work for you ?

But this hack seems definitely to be useful. I'll keep in touch with this thread.

This reduced the file size of my showthread page by nearly 20% :up:

Definitely speeds things up too.

Thank you!

How can I apply this to only certain (payed) usergroups?

Installed and works great, I can see a nice increase in page loading...many thanks :)

Sorry, Ive been away for a while. I will try to fix this problem ASAP.

I don't quite understand the need for this?

Does this hack make the board run faster? So members in that usergroup can browse faster... Or is it only saving bandwith?

This is to be applied to your forum as whole, controlled by you in the admin control panel.

This hack compresses your templates, thus saving you bandwidth while Also speeding up your forums a good bit on large pages.

How about optimizing the "archive"?

The Archive loads with such speed and uses very little HTML i doubt compressing it would actually make much of a difference really.

Also good work Trigunflame, i'm going to install this now and compare the loading times and see how well this works :)

- Zero Tolerance

The Trigunflame seemed to work for my problems. I believe it always leaves the first space now (which solves design formatting problems).

-V

Got a problem with the forum home when compressing templates.
See the attached screen grabs.
The first is a grab after templates have been compressed. And the second is when they are not compressed.
Note that the number of users visiting is missing a space before it.
What do I do to fix this, please?

installed (yes, I clicked the install button) and thanks. My bandwidth has been going through the roof over the past month with a big influx of members, this can't hurt. I'll have to give it a couple days and look at the raw numbers, when I get some results I will post some feedback :D

Nice hack.
Just wanted to point out that Zero Tolerance was not the first one who had this idea ;)

One suggestion:
Add an option to let the admin decided if Templates should be automatically compressed when saving them.
This way one could edit templates without always having to re-do the compression :)

w00t .............. forum goes like a rocket :lick: :lick: :lick: :lick: :lick: :lick:

Big HUGGGG :banana:

//edit:
one small Q:
I've done the compression & everything seems to work like a a charm.

Compress Templates and Uncompress Templates seems for me the only 2 options in the ACP ..
Is there only a bad templates array when there is a bad template?
Or where can i find this array?

I forgot to post my opinion on this hack : Very good job ! :D

I had little problems with some custom templates I did, but it was tuned in less an hour.

Thanks again !

So, you can give me an answer to my question? :ninja:

In admincp/template.php:

What a freakin awesome hack...I'm running 2 to 3 times faster!!! Installed without any ill effects as far as I can tell ( at least none that I can't live with)! Thanks dude!

worked fine for me on a very modded and styled board.. no issues I can see at all..? nice release. thanks.

Does this hack work with VB 3.3?
I tried insalling it but I guess I am doing something wrong. I get an internal server error everytime I click on the compress link.

There is a chance that I am doing one thing wrong. In step to the instruction says I should
Now should I paste the codes right above or right above Or right above ?

I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but I am a bit confused and would like to get this hack to work.

Same here. Thanks for the great modification.

:)

thanks for this awesome hack. it really seems like a good idea.

i just finished installing this and i compressed my templates. but when i refreshed my page, i got this
any suggestions? it was all fixed when i uncompressed the templates.

thanks in advance,
warren

Installed & woking on masscops.com with no problems at all! Excelent job, thanks...