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.

[Dark_D]

I had to add the 'forumhome' to the $bad_t array, and everything looks cool.
It works great so thank you for your work.

[lifesourcerec]

Originally Posted by Dark_D

I had to add the 'forumhome' to the $bad_t array, and everything looks cool.
It works great so thank you for your work.

Yep. That fixed it. Now, going to add the plugin acelerator, then recompress. Going to see what the difference is.

[memorex]

Originally Posted by lifesourcerec

Yep. That fixed it. Now, going to add the plugin acelerator, then recompress. Going to see what the difference is.

still no luck in getting my shoutbox to show after compressing. I think its a great hack, but my community is spoiled.

[lifesourcerec]

Originally Posted by memorex

still no luck in getting my shoutbox to show after compressing. I think its a great hack, but my community is spoiled.

Did you add forumhome to the bad array list?

[yxboom]

Originally Posted by lifesourcerec

Did you add forumhome to the bad array list?

ive added 'forumhome' to the bad array list; however, when compressing I still see forumhome_vbshout being compressed even though it is already in the ignore list and my shoutbox fails to show up once i run this hack.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by memorex

still no luck in getting my shoutbox to show after compressing. I think its a great hack, but my community is spoiled.

Make sure you are using the absolutely last release from the zip File.
You can change the "ignore templates" config file from the vbulletin settings now.

Just go there and add forumhome to the list (with a space as directed).

[Trigunflame]

Ps. Sorry everyone, I forgot to upload the new zip file that adds support for making bad template modifications from the control panel settings editor.

To Upgrade:

Uninstall product, Reinstall product using new Product xml file. Replace old php code with the newer php code listed in install.txt and use the hack as usual.

[yxboom]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Make sure you are using the absolutely last release from the zip File.
You can change the "ignore templates" config file from the vbulletin settings now.

Just go there and add forumhome to the list (with a space as directed).

maybe this will help. i had to add 'navbar' to the ignore list to get the shoutbox to appear.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by yxboom

maybe this will help. i had to add 'navbar' to the ignore list to get the shoutbox to appear.

Indeed it will, will update first post.

[Replicators]

This mod also messes up https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101368

I don't even know what templates i would have to ignore to get that working when templates are compressed.