Board Optimization - Page Output Compression - Whitespace stripper.

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[BigCheeze]

Installed and seems to be working nicely on a "patched" 3.0.6

[Stryker[X]]

Help! I installed it and got an error so I removed the code and now I get this on any page of the forums!

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting ',' or ';' in /homepages/15/d110888008/htdocs/thegamernation.com/forums/includes/functions.php on line 3734

[Gunshot]

Very nice boost in speed on all pages

thank you

[moppenet]

Is this fixed in 3.0.7?

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by moppenet

Is this fixed in 3.0.7?

If you are asking if this hack works with 3.0.7, then the answer is yes it works, I have it installed myself both the aggressive and lite versions combined.

If that is not what you are asking, can you please clarify what you are referring to please.

Thanks,

jd

[JulianD]

Installed this hack with no modification at all.

Just add this to your phpinclude_end template:

PHP Code:

$thisscriptis = array(
    'editpost',
    'register',
    'newreply',
    'newthread',
    'sendmessage',
    'private',
);
if (!in_array(THIS_SCRIPT, $thisscriptis)) {
    $patterns = array('/\>\s+\</', '/^\s*/m');
    $replace = array('> <', '');
    $output = preg_replace($patterns, $replace, $output);
} else {
    $output = preg_replace('/\>\s+\</', '> <', $output);
} 


[Zero Tolerance]

To save execution time, wouldn't it be better to do this upon "saving" a template to the database? That way it has already been stripped, and it doesn't need to be done upon page load, i know it won't make much of a performance difference, but if i page uses a LOT of HTML and a LOT of templates combined, it might take longer to load by a little bit.

Also seen as how vBulletin saves the template to the database in 2 forms, you just strip the whitespaces and such for the actual template shown on the site, while the default remains the same for when you edit it via the ACP?

Nice addition none the less, just thought that implementation could make it better

- Zero Tolerance

[buro9]

Interesting.

Where's the second stored instance?

The datastore stores styles but not templates. The template table has too columns that look good contenders... is the first 'template' the one I should modify?

Hmmm... I should also do bbcodeparse too shouldn't I, to get the content.

Certainly possible, but not as simple to install and support as this one Which is a large part of how I now like to write stuff

[Zero Tolerance]

In the table "template", there are 2 fields, one is: "template", and the other is "template_un". The first one is the one displayed on the forums, and already parsed (phrase tags, if conditionals, etc..), and the second one is the one un-parsed, for when editing via the ACP (it meant that vB didn't have to waste execution time to unparse the template upon editing/search/find & replace). My idea was that you modified the ACP style control file, so after saving a template, the data that gets saved to "template" has white spaces stripped.

- Zero Tolerance

[sross]

So let me get this right. for the lite version I place in the includes file:

// HACK : START : COMPRESS
$vartext = preg_replace('/\>\s+\</', '> <', $vartext);
// HACK : END : COMPRESS

Questions.. does this alter all my files or is it only changing whats output? I mean if I open my files via ftp will they be all compressed?
-If something goes wrong can I back out of this by just removing the code? What happened to that guy above who tried to back out and is toast? I'd like to install this but am scared it will screw something up beyond repair? thanks!