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.

[Rover416]

Very nice.

I have disabled it for now though as even when i add the vb shout templates you stated to the bad templates my shoutbox still vanishes.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Rover416

Very nice.

I have disabled it for now though as even when i add the vb shout templates you stated to the bad templates my shoutbox still vanishes.

Im working on that problem, should have something by later today/tomorrow.

[Rover416]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Im working on that problem, should have something by later today/tomorrow.

No problem.

I am just glad of the people who will release hacks on here.

[Replicators]

I guess i will wait for the next version as well i have vbshout installed and it vanished when i compressed the templates. You should warn people of this on the first post.....

[Corriewf]

Originally Posted by BoYagoob

I cannot see any difference before and after compressing, and there are still spaces between the lines in each template.

It doesnt compress on the GUI side (admincp) but if you look at the page source you will see it.

Thanks Trigun!!! I used this on 3.0.3 and my board was flying!

[Princeton]

useful addon that everyone should have :up:

[Snake]

I've been waiting for this...

[forte]

Another hack that stops working when compressing is the "Members who have visited the forum (Today or last 24 hours)" hack. Whenever I compress the templates, it wont show but when I decompress them, it shows up.

[GamerJunk.net]

Invalid Specified File when importing the cp_nav tpl xml file as a product?

[forte]

You are supposed to upload the "cpnav tpl compress.xml" file to includes/xml and "product tpl compress.xml" is the one that should be uploaded as a product.