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.

[DementedMindz]

Zia i dont think it will truely be anytime soon or any updates soon the last he was on was Mar 2006

[testpig]

Bugger - this was a great hack. Would be good to see it updated to vB 3.6.

[testpig]

OK -I've just redone the edit of template.php in the admin folder (as noted in the release instructions).

The hack seems to be working fine with 3.6.

[MissKalunji]

workign on 3.6 as well

[bairy]

Some plugins use string replace to find the comment code and insert their output under/above it. This hack remove the comments. To stop it removing them, remove this line from admincp/template.php:

$c = preg_replace('/<!--[^\{\[]*?-->/i',"",$c);

Don't forget to uncompress/recompress your temps after doing so.

[bairy]

Another tip.

In the admincp/template.php edit,
before // Finished, add:

$db->query_write("OPTIMIZE TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX ."template");

Compressing the templates means removing data, so the table will become unoptimized.

[Illustrious]

How do you add to the bad templates array? I looked over the php install code, and I didn't see the array.

[bairy]

AdminCP > vB Options > Template Compressor

[Zia]

Originally Posted by bairy

Another tip.

In the admincp/template.php edit,
before // Finished, add:

$db->query_write("OPTIMIZE TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX ."template");

Compressing the templates means removing data, so the table will become unoptimized.

cant u relase modified/updated version?

[rjmjr69]

How can I add a specific user to be allowed to view the stats like the admins can? He is an admin but thats set as his secondary usergoup for personal reasons. So I can't change it there.

And by the way this add on IS the best so far IMO for speeding the site up