Compress Forum Templates

Compress Forum Templates
Speed up your Forums & Save Bandwidth

Description:

This hack compresses your sites Templates into the database resulting in a significantly smaller page size and faster loading pages.
The benefits of this Template Compressor as opposed to virtually any other that you have installed is that this compresses the templates into the database.

Other hacks compress the pages on every page load which takes CPU/Memory usage as well as slows down the actual output of the page.

PS. Use this in conjunction with my Other Hack (Accelerated Plugins) for speeding up your forum even more (If you use plugins especially).
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107315
PS. Use this in conjunction with my Other Hack (Template Cache System) for speeding up your forum by caching its templates.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=110144


Background:

This is a semi-port from my Vbulletin 3 Version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=79923


Instructions:

1. Download Zip File, Extract files..
2. Read install.txt and follow it
3. Note: Anytime you update your templates, make sure to click "Compress Templates".
4. If you have any problems with certain hacks not working, add affected templates to "Template Ignore" setting in the Admin Control Panel settings.


Common Templates That May Need To Be Added to Ignore Settings:

phpinclude_start phpinclude_end editor_jsoptions_font editor_jsoptions_size forumhome navbar forumhome_vbshout forumhome_vbshout_shout


Updates:

Version 4.2: Forgot to upload ZIP File..
Version 4.1:
Changed setting location, you now modify them in the Admin Control Panel under Template Compressor Settings; there you can specify the templates to ignore.
Flashchat, others sometimes cause problems; so by default a few vbchat templates are listed in the ignore setting.
If you have problems with any other hacks not showing, trying add the 'forumhome' template to the ignore setting and recompress your templates.

Version 4: Integrating Hellcats regex, hopefully will solve some problems.

[MissKalunji]

works fine! thanks

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

i was wondering if you would do anything like Hellcat's Page Compression hack
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...hlight=hellcat where it shows on the footer how much is compressed? i kinda liked that so i could tell but in the end its your call just thought it would be nice to see

Hellcats does the compression every page load, which also slows down the page..

Mine precompiles the output in the database, saving you overhead; thus you get some speed improvement as while as compression.

Choose whichever you want, I care not

[Trigunflame]

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[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Hellcats does the compression every page load, which also slows down the page..

Mine precompiles the output in the database, saving you overhead; thus you get some speed improvement as while as compression.

He wasn't asking for you to incorporate the same compression strategy, he was asking if you could have it display in the footer how much was compressed. To see how much of an affect your add-on really has. That's what Hellcat's does, and it's nice.

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by Tralala

He wasn't asking for you to incorporate the same compression strategy, he was asking if you could have it display in the footer how much was compressed. To see how much of an affect your add-on really has. That's what Hellcat's does, and it's nice.

that is what i mean would be nice to see the stats in the footer kinda like his does to truely see what we save

[Bellinis]

I removed this mod because it messed up my line spacing between paragraphs. As soon as I did a preview of my post or wanted to edit my post after I've posted it, the line spacings were removed.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Bellinis

I removed this mod because it messed up my line spacing between paragraphs. As soon as I did a preview of my post or wanted to edit my post after I've posted it, the line spacings were removed.

All you had to do was add that template to the ignore templates setting; dont blame a mod for not following directions.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Tralala

He wasn't asking for you to incorporate the same compression strategy, he was asking if you could have it display in the footer how much was compressed. To see how much of an affect your add-on really has. That's what Hellcat's does, and it's nice.

I would have to add a template or a phrase or a datastore item that stored that little bit of information, and it wouldnt change.. it would stay the same.

Like Ive already said 1000000000000000 times; it does the compression once and saves them in your template table. You would just be looking at a static number everytime you loaded the page.

[mixer66]

This plugin seems to running almost perfectly but i found 2 details and not sure if this plugin cause this details that goes wrong on by board. When you want to edit a post , you have to press 2 x the edit button, the first attempt gives a error in the browser, and first i had quick edit box inside the post (ajax ), right now it opens the advanced edit box ??? And on the PM create msg box is some extra functional ajax issues dissappered. It happen after i install the compress combo plugin's this past weekend. It's not a disaster but this where nice extra items after the 3.5.4 upgrade that i miss now. Can someone help me with this ?

Update: I did some mor investiagtion on this "Ajax Quick Edit" error. My FF error console says there is an JavaScript error:

Error: vB_Editor[vB_QuickEditor.editorid] has no properties
sourcecode: http://www.eurovan2.com/forum/client..._quick_edit.js
line: 246

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by mixer66

This plugin seems to running almost perfectly but i found 2 details and not sure if this plugin cause this details that goes wrong on by board. When you want to edit a post , you have to press 2 x the edit button, the first attempt gives a error in the browser, and first i had quick edit box inside the post (ajax ), right now it opens the advanced edit box ??? And on the PM create msg box is some extra functional ajax issues dissappered. It happen after i install the compress combo plugin's this past weekend. It's not a disaster but this where nice extra items after the 3.5.4 upgrade that i miss now. Can someone help me with this ?

Update: I did some mor investiagtion on this "Ajax Quick Edit" error. My FF error console says there is an JavaScript error:

Error: vB_Editor[vB_QuickEditor.editorid] has no properties
sourcecode: http://www.eurovan2.com/forum/client..._quick_edit.js
line: 246

Find the associated template names and add them to the Ignore Setting, and recompress the templates.