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.

[vbreal]

this sounds great, i need to watch this thread
i don't know enough about vbulletin to fix it if something goes wrong ha. i just started a site don't want to loose folks from down time ha

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by Real Talk

this sounds great, i need to watch this thread
i don't know enough about vbulletin to fix it if something goes wrong ha. i just started a site don't want to loose folks from down time ha

Eh ive spent close to about 10+ hrs of bug-fixing regex problems it shouldnt hurt your files, but always make backups before you ever attempt to modify anything.

[Trigunflame]

If you get any parse errors, just re-run "Rebuild Hook Cache" and "Rebuild All Plugins" and it should clear any problems.

[eNforce]

Ok about my shoutbox problem, it now appears to only display it when I set the shout box to "below navigation bar" and Rebuild All Plugins. Won't work when it's set to "Below Forums"

Strange

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by eNforce

Ok about my shoutbox problem, it now appears to only display it when I set the shout box to "below navigation bar" and Rebuild All Plugins. Won't work when it's set to "Below Forums"

Strange

Can you check your index.php to verify that the system is replacing the hook locations with the needed php code, you should see my comment blocks surrounding the php code ie.

//[p:forumhome_start]
$testing = 'woot';
//[/p:forumhome_start]

Should be 3 or 4 different comment block hooks throughout index.php

ps. if possible, change the filename to index.txt and upload it as an attachment.

[eNforce]

oooh about that, I have VBA CMPS installed and it's the index.php, the original VB index.php is renamed to forum.php. Is this causing the problems?

If so, any way to get around it?

(i don't see any comment blocks in the VBA CMPS index.php)

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by eNforce

oooh about that, I have VBA CMPS installed and it's the index.php, the original VB index.php is renamed to forum.php. Is this causing the problems?

If so, any way to get around it?

(i don't see any comment blocks in the VBA CMPS index.php)

Try adding the forum.php to the includes/hook_files.php on its own line.

You have to remember, hook_files.php contains the locations to all of the files the Accelerator scans for hook locations; without that it doesnt know what and where to replace any plugin code.

Update that hook_files.php with forum.php and the Rebuild Hook Cache, Rebuild All Plugins.

[eNforce]

Done that, doesn't seem to help

Though it is leaving your comment blocks in forum.php

[Reef]

This is a great concept Trigunflame, I would love to improve speed any way possible but this killed my board after running Rebuild Hooks + Plugins.

After running those I recieved this error on every page I tried loading

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ']' in /home/rplace/public_html/board/includes/functions.php on line 4353

I ended up having to replace the php files with backups since I couldn't reload the page to try uninstalling it.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by eNforce

Done that, doesn't seem to help

Though it is leaving your comment blocks in forum.php

Hmm.. im trying to think what could be causing it to not show up, are you getting any sort of javascript errors? Or weird HTML when you view the page source?