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.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Smiry Kin's

i had these on my list.:
editor_jsoptions_font editor_jsoptions_size phpinclude_start phpinclude_end forumhome_vbshout forumhome_vbshout_shout
photoplog_cat_bit
photoplog_cat_list
photoplog_comment_form
photoplog_delete_form
photoplog_edit_form
photoplog_error_page
photoplog_file_bit
photoplog_file_list
photoplog_letter_bar
photoplog_rate_bit
photoplog_remove_form
photoplog_rate_list
photoplog_subcat_bar
photoplog_sub_navbar
photoplog_upload_form
photoplog_view_file

and gallery still doesnt work

Bro you have to put a "space" between each template, not a line break.

[Smiry Kin's]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Bro you have to put a "space" between each template, not a line break.

Nah that was an example i actually have:
editor_jsoptions_font editor_jsoptions_size phpinclude_start phpinclude_end forumhome_vbshout forumhome_vbshout_shout photoplog_cat_bit photoplog_cat_list photoplog_comment_form photoplog_delete_form photoplog_edit_form photoplog_error_page photoplog_file_bit photoplog_file_list photoplog_letter_bar photoplog_rate_bit photoplog_remove_form photoplog_rate_list photoplog_subcat_bar photoplog_sub_navbar hotoplog_upload_form photoplog_view_file forumhome

[HC.]

ALL OF OUR SMILIES QUIT WORKING
when I uncompress they work just fine

[icare]

this hack screwd my navbar in fire fox,,,, My navbar is missing after compressing the templetes

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by icare

this hack screwd my navbar in fire fox,,,, My navbar is missing after compressing the templetes

add navbar to ignore templates config, and recompress.

[icare]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

add navbar to ignore templates config, and recompress.

How should I do that? Please check my url at www.hornybollywood.com

Check in firefox and you will see.....

[Hellcat]

Hey guys!

Dropping in late

Got the vBShout working?
My guess is the shoutbox vanishes, because the PlugIn of vBShout uses HTML comments in the FORUMHOME template for a search/replace to hook itself in there at runtime.

If those comments get compressed out it doesn't find it's spots to place itself in.

I didn't take a look yet how my RegEx have been integrated in this, but in my realtime compressor all (and only, to keep compression high) comments containing a "[" are ingnored/left.
This was initially to get compatibility with AnyMedia, but can also be used to make other needed HTML comment "immun" to the compression.

Maybe this 2ct help a bit

Cheers :up:

[Mudvayne]

hey i'm lill bit confused here.. I cand found igore template option.. I just redownload the zip file & replace the cpnav_pcl.xml file.. But i cant find tht yet.. Just Compress Templates & Uncompress Templates 2 option.. Currently I uncompressed my templates.. Coz it creates prob with editor toolbar.. User cant use smile.. bold italic or underline n color size style.. waiting for help..

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Shuvo

hey i'm lill bit confused here.. I cand found igore template option.. I just redownload the zip file & replace the cpnav_pcl.xml file.. But i cant find tht yet.. Just Compress Templates & Uncompress Templates 2 option.. Currently I uncompressed my templates.. Coz it creates prob with editor toolbar.. User cant use smile.. bold italic or underline n color size style.. waiting for help..

Its in your Admin CP Configuration options, it has its own section..

[HC.]

Trigunflame,
Great product this has helped my site out alot but in turn when make a post/thread nothing works no bold, center, smilies or anything
How can this be fixed
When I uncompress everything works fine but then it is back to the slow loading speed again