Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Remove all (Template-)Comments from any HTML-Output

This small PlugIn will give you the option to remove all comments you put in your templates before the HTML-code gets spit out to the client's browser.

You can activate or deactivate this feature via AdminCP (vBulletin Settings -> General Settings) and even allow usergroups to view those comments anyway (like for Developer, Styler, Admins ect.)

In addition you are able to activate the removal of blank Lines in the HTML-output, this makes the code more clean after removing the comments



Just import the product and adjust the settings the way you need it

Don't forget to click INSTALL if you use this



Bugs:
none found yet

Planned feature:
1) remove //-Comments from JavaScript

[Snake]

I'll definitenly install this when I get back to home. Thanks!

[KTBleeding]

Oh, neat..

This is something I actually thought about yesterday. Thanks.

[MGM]

While I understand that having a lower page size makes things load faster, what is the effect of using the coding to remove the comments? Like, does it add more server load? Do the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?

MGM out

[tako]

How does it effect to the board's loading and parsing performance? Positive or negative? Oops, same question as MGM's...

[MrZeropage]

This way you can add more internal information to the code, by now there are often more information in the sourcecode than you think of.

Example:
most modification add their code in templates like

<!-- this is additional function for admins-->

[...CODE...]

<!-- / of special mod -->

This means although the user can't use/see this function, he has some information about installed addons in his sourcecode.

[MGM]

But again, is the advantages of removing the comments better than the disadvantage of having the code check every template and remove every comment line for line?

MGM out

[MrZeropage]

But again, is the advantages of removing the comments better than the disadvantage of having the code check every template and remove every comment line for line?

It does not check the code line-per-line it is just some simple replacements in the final output, only one command per comment-type

[utw-Mephisto]

Works perfect - thanks

Some people did not understand in your 3.5x release what it does ..

Here a screenshot (including spelling mistakes ) :

[Mudvayne]

Installed n working fine for RC3 ..