Plugin Accelerator

Vbulletin Plugin Accelerator
Accelerate Your Forums Plugins

Summary:

If you use the Vbulletin Plugin System (Specially if you use a lot of plugins), this will help improve the performance of the system overall by inlining all of the plugin code into the PHP files themself.

Essentially making it as if you had hacked the files yourself, this will give you better performance on your forum overall.

PS. Use this in conjunction with my Other Hack (Compress Forum Templates) for speeding up your forum even more by compressing templates.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107615
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

Install:

1. Download the zip file.
2. Open install.txt and Read Instructions

Upgrade:

1. Download the zip file.
2. Uninstall Product "Vbulletin Plugin Accelerator"
3. Open install.txt and Read Instructions to install like usual.

Current Status: (RC2)

Release Candidate 2 Has Been Released.
This code has been deemed acceptable and to be used by all.

Please report any bugs back to this thread.
Thanks.

• Latest Changes: 02/11/2006
• Fixed another problem with backslashes, hopefully this will fix some other problems.
• To upgrade, just replace the includes/class_plugin_accelerator.php with the new one.

Important Notes:

1. While this IS a release candidate, more than likely its not fully bug free so Please backup your files before you install this modification, this system is not yet perfect.

2. When running "Rebuild Hook Cache" and "Rebuild All Plugins" if you ever see a small parse error, or file couldnt be opened error; re-run both again and it should go away.

3. includes/hook_files.php contains locations of all the files the accelerator scans for plugin hooks, if you have any files that have been renamed, moved, etc.. you need to add it to that file on its own line, thanks.


If You Have Problems:

If you incur any parse errors, or pages not displaying after running the steps. Please make a copy of the affect file as well as its original version, zip them and upload somewhere. Send me a link to the file for me to download, review and provide a fix.

[Reef]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

so how is this going? is it safe to use? any HUGE bugs?

You should have no big problems with this latest release but make a backup of all php files affected by this mod just in case.

The worse that will happen is you will just need to replace those if you do get Fatal Errors preventing page loading after running this.

I've been polling my members for a few days now concerning any noticable speed increase after installing this and the template compressor here. Only a couple members stated they can't tell a difference and 'nobody' has said it is now slower.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Reef

You should have no big problems with this latest release but make a backup of all php files affected by this mod just in case.

The worse that will happen is you will just need to replace those if you do get Fatal Errors preventing page loading after running this.

I've been polling my members for a few days now concerning any noticable speed increase after installing this and the template compressor here. Only a couple members stated they can't tell a difference and 'nobody' has said it is now slower.

Well it all has to do with the % of plugins, someone with 10-15 + plugins are going to notice a much bigger difference than if for example someone only has 1-2.

And actually the system is not finished yet, to truely get the extra speed which require a modification to remove the loading of phpcode from the db which is still being done even though its not used.

[nexus851]

The e-steki smilie maker dont work when you put in the bb codes in the threads...for example if i put this in the thread "[smilie=1,1,1]" then it should have a smilie graphic, but after the accelerator enable, it gives me a missing graphic [x] box instead. After i disable it, then it works normally. What do u suggest or can u fix this?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Reef

You should have no big problems with this latest release but make a backup of all php files affected by this mod just in case.

The worse that will happen is you will just need to replace those if you do get Fatal Errors preventing page loading after running this.

I've been polling my members for a few days now concerning any noticable speed increase after installing this and the template compressor here. Only a couple members stated they can't tell a difference and 'nobody' has said it is now slower.

ok thanks

but does this edit templates? database? it will only affect the php files?

[Reef]

This does not mess with the database or any templates. Only a couple phrases are added.

[MissKalunji]

ok im gon give it a shot!

[MissKalunji]

trying to install but stuck there

- Take a look at the list of filenames in "hook_files.php", this
	the list of files that will parsed, and modified when hooks are 
	changed.
		
	- After looking at that list, be sure to change permissions on the files 
	so that they can be written to; the script tries to do this automatically 
	but depending on the server may or may not; it will tell you if I cant 
	write to the files.

i dont understand what im suppose to do there hook_files.php ? i dont have that on my server

Thanks

[Paul M]

hook_files.php is part of this hack, if you don't have it, you haven't installed it correctly.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

trying to install but stuck there

- Take a look at the list of filenames in "hook_files.php", this
	the list of files that will parsed, and modified when hooks are 
	changed.
		
	- After looking at that list, be sure to change permissions on the files 
	so that they can be written to; the script tries to do this automatically 
	but depending on the server may or may not; it will tell you if I cant 
	write to the files.

i dont understand what im suppose to do there hook_files.php ? i dont have that on my server

Thanks

It should be in the zip file, you place hook_files.php into your forums includes/ directory.

[MissKalunji]

ok thx