Combine It - Javascript and CSS optimization
 

What does it do?

This mod is designed to automatically merge and minify all CSS and Javascript on the board and cache the result. This helps reduce requests to the server and reduces bandwidth usage.

Installation

1. Upload contents of upload folder to forum
2. Create a folder named 'cache' in the forum
3. Make sure the web server has the appropriate permissions to write to the cache folder
4. Import product-combineit.xml into vBulletin
5. Edit options under vBulletin options to reflect how you want the mod to act and to activate it

Notes

This may not work with highly customized CSS or Javascript. If the script can't write to the cache folder this mod will not function. If you find problems with the order a particular script is executing in, add it's filename as a stop word and it'll load as usual.

thank you alot i need this hack iwas look for like this ..... installed

Updated to fix potential vbSEO issue, and to allow the option of not optimizing inline CSS.

If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to post them.

Will be looking into this. Could be very handy for heavily modified boards. Thanks.. :up:

Nice! Glad this is not for 4.0 (yet) as I'm going to be on 3.8 for a lil while still!

Installed! thanks for this :up:

Thanks tons :D Going to try it out now.

woooow
great
nominated + installed

what permissions?
777?
or 775?

how to know it is working?

Depends on your web server, but 777 should definitely work without any issues.

Look in your page source, you should see a reference to /cache/{somenumber}.css and a .js in the same format. If it's not doing that then there are two possible causes. 1) Some of your js or css files are 401/404 or 2) you haven't set any options for it.

MGC Chat is not loading the conversations and stopped working.
Front Page Slide Show (FPSS) on vB Advanced stopped loading pictures.

It looks great. I hope i can find a way to solve my problems..
And thanks for this great hack..

nice mode thanks

Put the js filenames for each broken mod into the stopwords field and it should work.

this did not work
I am using the mod for vb 3.7
and I am caching js and css with htaccess
however there is a file named "112389241.css" in cache folder

but there is no such file in page source !

can you give optimum settings?

This does not work.

As the person above I have just a small css file, missing all of the relevant css, and no call to cache in the source.

Funny thing is all those giving praise I went to your sites and none have it working.

Also the javascript in the member.php is disabled, so no tabs are displayed. Even if I disable very function in the vb settings. I'm not a developer for that I really can't measure any speed increase.
Felt speed increase=0
But I wish it would, so keep on working on it. :up:

The optimal settings are in the screenshot. I'll take a look at your forum a little later and see if I can work out what might be creating an issue.

If you'd like to show me your settings I'd love to see if I can work out what the issue is for you. It's not exactly meant to be the most novice of mods.

The speed increase from the mod is meant to be aimed at first time visitors more so than repeat visitors who would always have those files cached. It also aims to reduce bandwidth on those files in the first place with minifying them. If you'd like to compare you can always install the firefox page speed mod google provides and test it from there. The motivation for this mod was googles recent public expression that they are rewarding pages that load faster, and one of their recommendations is to limit and minify the javascript/css on page, and combine them into fewer files, of which this mod does.

FWIW, I just updated the version to now allow people to only minify CSS in case there are too many Javascript issues.

updated it but still shows as Version 1.0

it seems no body have managed to work with it
if it really works it would be gr8

For those of you who want to see an example forum www.menewsha.com though CSS is the only one being minified right now while I make some modifications.

so why it is not working for me ?

http://100fm6.com/vb/

I thought it was supposed to merge the css as well as minify.

any update?

installed but not woorking good

we need new update please

AJAX not Working Need to be checked and Fixed

vB 3.8.5 support?

I'll have to check this one out, looks good

What is the recommended setting for
Javascript caching
How long should the javascript be cached for?
300 or 3600 ?

Doesn't seem to work for me.

assuming seconds 3600 is super low that's one hour. How often would your js even change. You'd prob easily be safe with 12-24 hours and possibly even more.

How much is "highly" customized CSS or Javascript?

10 JS mods?
100 JS mods?

just try it man nobody can know till you try it

I have installed it and it works (only with 777 on cache) but fast edit does not work. It sends you to full edit form the first click.

Can this be put as an exclusion in the settings?

It seems there are many problems with posting (bold, smilies ... ) uninstalled for the moment.

EDIT: I will love too have this working on my site as is clear: google wants pages loading fast and aren't we all happy to please google :D

Great mod . thanks .

1 / Taps in members profiles not shown .
2/ Quick Reply not working .

Does it work with 4.0?

Installed, but i get an error at forum page

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'JSMinException' with message 'Unterminated string literal.' in /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/php-min.php:94 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/php-min.php(235): JSMin->action(1) #1 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/php-min.php(64): JSMin->min() #2 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/combineit.php(177): JSMin::minify('<!DOCTYPE html ...') #3 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/functions.php(5737) : eval()'d code(96): combineJS('<!DOCTYPE html ...') #4 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/functions.php(5737): eval() #5 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/index.php(597) : eval()'d code(175): print_output('<!DOCTYPE html ...') #6 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/index.php(597): eval() #7 /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/vbseo.php(1392): require('/var/www/vhosts...') #8 {main} thrown in /var/www/vhosts/teccentral.de/httpdocs/forum/includes/php-min.php on line 94

what can i do to fix it ?

vBulletin 3.8.4 , vBAdvanced works fine

Anything like this for v4.1 ?