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.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

how is this going?

Well if it messes up some hack on your templates, all you have to do is click "Uncompress Templates". Nothing this hack does is "permanent"; it can always be reverted.

I am working on some issues with very rare instances of problems, but in general its pretty compatible with everything.

[Corriewf]

VERY NICE! Much faster now in combo with your plugin accelerator! Thanks.

[HC.]

great hack way faster than I have ever seen I need to try the plugin hack now

[chairman miaow]

Very nice - it's certainly made it faster !

[testpig]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Updated install.txt, and questions. (Doing This for Page Update).

Hi Trigun.
Thanks for this mod. Its made an amazing amount of difference to my site! Best mod I've made all year.....buy you a beer if your ever in Aus

Highly recommended...easy install and improved performance out of sight!

[lifesourcerec]

Great mod, but it removes some of my tables and some templates it can't compress.

It saus bad template by my phpinclude and these 2 tables disappear:

Total members that have visited the forum today:

and

Members currently using Flashchat

[memorex]

Great mod, but can't use till the issue with the shoutbox is resolved. Thanx, will be keeping an eye on this one.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by lifesourcerec

Great mod, but it removes some of my tables and some templates it can't compress.

It saus bad template by my phpinclude and these 2 tables disappear:

Total members that have visited the forum today:

and

Members currently using Flashchat

Have you tried identifying which templates those parts of the site are using, add them to the $bad_t array, it is there for a reason.

[Trigunflame]

Updated Template Compressor:

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.

2. Flashchat, others sometimes cause problems; so by default a few vbchat templates are listed in the ignore setting.

3. If you have problems with any other hacks not showing, trying add the 'forumhome' template to the ignore setting and recompress your templates.

Thanks.

[lifesourcerec]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Have you tried identifying which templates those parts of the site are using, add them to the $bad_t array, it is there for a reason.

These tables are in forumhome I believe which should already be on the list.