[Michael Morris]

Good point Dean, but doing that constitutes a direct hack of the code and voids the Jelsoft user support plan.

That said, since phpinclude_start executes at the very start of any page load it's best to cache it's templates at the start of global.php. Here's how:

In your global.php file look for this code

PHP Code:

// identify where we are
define('VB_AREA', 'Forum'); 


Directly after it add the following:

PHP Code:

$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates,
        array(
            'announcement_all',
            'announcement_guest',
            'announcement_pending',
            'announcement_staff',
            'announcement_noposts',
            'announcement_noposts14days',
            'announcement_registered'
               )
); 


That merges in the templates mentioned in Lesson 3. If you add more templates, simply add them to the list following the format given above - each item in ' ' marks and followed by a coma (if you miss a coma on the very last entry it doesn't matter).

EDIT: I don't do this on a fairly large board and it doesn't seem to slow the system down noticably - then again we have some very new equipment there. Dean's right - doing this will reduce the # of queries ran, but at a cost of voiding the support program - at least until you remove the hack.