Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Remove all (Template-)Comments from any HTML-Output

This small PlugIn will give you the option to remove all comments you put in your templates before the HTML-code gets spit out to the client's browser.

You can activate or deactivate this feature via AdminCP (vBulletin Settings -> General Settings) and even allow usergroups to view those comments anyway (like for Developer, Styler, Admins ect.)

In addition you are able to activate the removal of blank Lines in the HTML-output, this makes the code more clean after removing the comments



Just import the product and adjust the settings the way you need it

Don't forget to click INSTALL if you use this



Bugs:
none found yet

Planned feature:
1) remove //-Comments from JavaScript

[Paul M]

So how does this affect script code that is enclosed inside <!-- --> ?

[nevetS]

I just installed. I noticed this script in my page:

	<script type="text/javascript">
	<!--
	vB_AJAX_ThreadRate_Init('showthread_threadrate_form');
	var threadid = 17;
	//-->
	</script>

It was properly untouched. I haven't tested it extensively, but it seems to do the trick. I don't know the real SEO affect of something like this, but I do like the idea of removing a lot of template-related comments from the code.

[MrZeropage]

This was done to remove comments from the templates (so I can put some more information for myself in it without any user getting those information) and not for any SEO-related thing

[Jaxel]

Isn't there already an opion to remove comments from output in the regular VB control panel?

[ForumDog]

That just affects template identification comments as far as I know.

[MrZeropage]

Yes, this is only for Template-Names itself

[DeMagH]

thanks a zillion, my comments are usually long and very illustrative, which is not good if someone is seeing the page source.

worked like a charm with vbulletin 3.6.2

[DeMagH]

hi, i installed this and was working perfectly, till we found a small bug.

whenever a user is previewing a msg, all the line spacings are gone, though the previewed msg has its original line spacing pattern.

uninstalled it cuz some users got annoyed from this happening all the time. Though i didn't mark it here as uninstalled as i think this will be fixed easily. waiting for the update.

One question though:
how does it affect the overall server load? cuz i think in big forums this is gonna be a serious problem.

Also, in the userCP when logged in as moderator/admin the moderate threads page is out of forum size "800px is the size of my forums, it extends a little bit out of this when I installed the pluggin", the moderate posts seems to be working fine though ?!!!

[MrZeropage]

Ok, will have a closer look on this, thanks for reporting

[DeMagH]

ok thanks, but i had a question about how does this patch affect the server load, any ideas?