Show Thread Enhancements - CES Intelligent Postbit Query

CES Intelligent Postbit Query
Version: 1.0.1

This hack is now used as a troubleshooting tool for members with unusually high queries on showthread. You do not need to install this unless your queries peak around 20 or higher.

Note that if after installing this you experience a drop in queries, it means you have a bad plugin installed. Leaving this installed, while this does not hurt your forum at all, does not solve your query problem - it only now hides it.

To disable the tool, you only need to change the line:

PHP Code:

$lastcheck = ($lastfetchtype == $fetchtype) ? true : false; 


to:

PHP Code:

// $lastcheck = ($lastfetchtype == $fetchtype) ? true : false; 


Post your query success stories in the thread!

For those without success (i.e. it doesn't seem to make a difference), please don't uninstall, but help us determine what is different in your case. PHP version, MySQL version, hacks installed, PHP cache, etc. would all be useful information. Thanks!

*** NEWS ***
This section has become a list of bad plugins. Often these plugins can be optimized by a rewrite using a different hook, and thus not causing this query issue.

Product: Username Management
Hook Location: postbit_factory
Bad Plugin: Add Username history to postbit(legacy)

1/28/2007 - v1.0.0, v1.0.1 released

I actually came across this while trying to reduce queries in my CES Site News mod which uses a customized showthread.php.

Known Issues:
- NONE

- Some users see an amazing improvement, others do not see a difference in query count for some time, while still others don't see any difference at all. It all depends on your server setup and your current vBulletin installation (settings, other mods, etc). This hack is still young (1 day) so we haven't narrowed down what causes these differences in success.

- If you are still experiencing the stolen signatures issue, you need to clear your sig_cache. Do this by going to AdminCP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Empty Signature Cache.

What It Does:
On some installations showthread wastes 1 query per post in showthread.php when creating the postbits. You can tell if this applies to your installation if you approach or exceed 20 queries on a page of only 10 or so posts.

By adding these 4 lines, showthread checks to see if it already has created the appropriate Postbit Factory object instead of doing it all over again. Queries on showthread are thus DRASTICALLY reduced (1 per post), even though the code reveals no direct database references.

This can be a HUGE performance boost.

I hope someone from Jelsoft sees this thread...

Mod Features:
- removes multiple pointless queries

Products to Install: 0
Plugins Included: 0
Files to Upload: 0
Files to Edit: 1
New Templates: 0
Template Edits: 0
Queries Added*: -1

*See "What It Does" for details.

*** Changelog ***
As of Version 1.0.1:
- fixed bug where posts would "steal" signatures from each other
Special thanks to TheFrienzNet for his help ^_^

[Jorrit787]

* Clicks uninstall.

I'm having the same problem with the signatures

[iardon]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

...or at least Jelsoft putting it in 3.7.x.

Have you contacted Jelsoft about this and your other CES mod?

[TheFrienzNet]

thincom2000, do you have MSN or any instant messenger so we can resolve this problem together?

[tanyeri24]

I have the signature problem too..

[TheFrienzNet]

We finally got it working! Please look at the first post.

[tanyeri24]

Originally Posted by TheFrienzNet

We finally got it working! Please look at the first post.

where changes?

[thincom2000]

I just uploaded the updated instructions.

Very soon I will be off to eliminate the next unnecessary query: did you ever notice that polls add 2 extra queries to showthread? It'll take some, not hacking but, butchering, but I will do it with 0!

Also coming soon an updated version of my intelligent attachment query, that's basically no different in practice just fewer edits to showthread.php (since it was another butcher job).

[tanyeri24]

and now again edited but I have anyways same query count like unedited showthread.php .. (I see the querys with microstat plugin)

[TheFrienzNet]

Do you have any other page compressor/cache accelerator or whatsoever?

[thincom2000]

What's the query count?