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.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by lordofgun

thanks! that worked!

You = Welcome.

[Mattikana]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Yes i know about that one, it is actually a problem with how the script is coded but doesnt show itself due to vbulletins buffered output.

Basically its calling the replacepngtags() before the actual function is defined. You can solve that problem by moving the function definition above the actual call to it..

in lamens terms..

you want

function nameofthefunction()
{

}

nameofthefunction()

instead of vice versa.

Thanks. Works great now with that hack enabled. :banana:

[Trigunflame]

Ya, I definately need to get this updated as well; ive been putting it off while workin on other things.

HOPEFULLY can get some more additions within the next few days.

[Chadi]

After running this:

I am missing (bottom forumhome) these plugins
Legend
Users visited last 24hrs
Users in FlashChat

I already deleted the plugin above and re-chmodded files to 0644 but they are still missing in FF, IE, Avant.

What could it be? I ran database optimizer but no good. Was working just fine prior. I actually tried to disable all 3 as well, yet "legend" (only header/title) STILL shows up (as it did when enabled also). Could it be improper file permissions?

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by chadi

After running this:

I am missing (bottom forumhome) these plugins
Legend
Users visited last 24hrs
Users in FlashChat

I already deleted the plugin above and re-chmodded files to 0644 but they are still missing in FF, IE, Avant.

What could it be? I ran database optimizer but no good. Was working just fine prior. I actually tried to disable all 3 as well, yet "legend" (only header/title) STILL shows up (as it did when enabled also). Could it be improper file permissions?

If you uninstall Plugin Accelerator; you must first revert the modification it does to the files using the admincp.

Otherwise you need to reupload your vbulletin php files and ovewrite the ones on your server.

Also please make sure you are not confusing this hack with template compressor.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by mini2

How stable is this just now (in your opinion) and if I install it, run it, and it all goes haywire, can I undo the changes made with a press of a button?

Thanks.

Its a lot more stable than it used to be. And yes should be able to enable/disable it which will revert the modifications to the files. In the event a file is corrupted for some reason just overwrite it with your copy of the file.

[DementedMindz]

wow i noticed a major speed up in my pages thanks

[Trigunflame]

Glad to know Get the word out !

[Mudvayne]

Trigunflame.. last update yesterday.. But didnt got any update mail.. Plz send an update everytime u update ur hack.. Thts a request ..

[MissKalunji]

Whatst he update? whats new?