Excuse me Doron but I assume you are talking about this hack :
http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/hacks...=gethack&id=27


For any page that includes global.php this hack loads all the templates and places them in an array that is called using the gettemplate function.

Your usage of the verbage "it's faster to have them in the actual php" implies that the templates are not ever read from anything as they are stored in the actual PHP vBulletin files which, obviously, is not the case.

If you don't understand my hack functions EXACTLY like stallions hack except instead of loading all the templates for every new page, which is what is done whenever global.php is called. It only loads the templates needed for that page from disk and caches any template that is needed more than once (i.e. forumbit, postbit, etc).

The question I was looking at is: is it quicker to A. load all templates into a cache via mysql as topti does or is it quicker to include only the templates from disk that are needed for each page and cache them if they are used more than once.

It was only meant as a case study but Doron you have hopelessly confused everybody as to what it does vs. what topti actually does.

[Edited by rangersfan on 10-21-2000 at 06:02 PM]