Sorry, my mistake again... Yes, when I said template, it means a template separate from vbulletin.

That is the neat thing about PHP/mysql. Everything (within reason) is low overhead. I do not believe there is a way to make this script less overhead than it is now. If you are compairing it to UBB Active Topics, then it is so far below their overhead that it wouldn't show up on a graph. (imnsho)


To have this script up to date, just ssi it in your page.

To have a 'less overhead' version, have it output (via cron) to a text file and have the text file ssi'ed into your page. The more time between the output, the less overhead.