Phpbb multiple attachment downloader how to#
Phpbb multiple attachment downloader install#

If you have a good text editor that can search/replace in multiple files, go ahead. Since these paths are hardcoded in the templates we're sure that they are language independent, so they'll all go to the i2 subdomain. Now the bad news is that some of the template files (.tpl) still contain relative paths to images, we need to make these absolute and pointing to the subdomians. Now open templates/sso/theme_info.cfg and replace all occurrences of 'subSilver' with 'sso'. This is optional, you can achieve the same by using the admin panel, but we said we wanted to have the board unaffected by the changes. This will overwrite the path to the smilies you set in the admin interface. All occurrences of: $current_template_images//ДЄnd all occurrences of $current_template_images/ДЄt the end of the file, just before ?> add a new line: $board_config = '' With //$current_template_images = $current_template_path. Then at the top of the document, replace the line: $current_template_images = $current_template_path. Now go ahead and modify templates/sso/subSilver.cfg, the theme configuration. I'll call mine 'sso' as in 'subSilver optimized' (or the longer mirror-like version 'ssoss' as in 'stoyan stefanov, oh, so smart' рџ‰ )ДЇor this purpose, just take the contents of path/to/phpbb/templates/subSilver and copy it under the name 'sso', so you'll have /templates/sso, an exact subSilver copy. Let's go ahead and create a new template (theme), based on the default subSilver template. i1 will have all the rest - translatable images found in subSilver/images/lang_english, smilies and the stylesheet.

I decided that more or less half of the images are multilingual (they don't contain text) so these go to i2.

Phpbb multiple attachment downloader how to#

Now the question would be how to divide assets between the two domains.

So in my case, for the domain I create two sub-domains - i1. and i2. (i as in image). In case your host is an exception, alternatively you can buy one or two extra domains to use for the same purpose - storing page assets. Typically, shared hosts allow subdomains and have their admin interface for doing so.

Phpbb multiple attachment downloader install#

I'll speculate that at least 90% of the phpBB installations out there use shared host so I hope my implementation will be relevant to your phpBB install as well. The suggested implementations were done and tested on a normal $60/year shared host, working around the limitations of such hosting. Maybe you'll find something that can be done in addition to the plan above. It's a good idea though to go through the links above and read the detailed description of the rules. There will be no explanations on the reasoning why these rules exists, but only how to implement the applicable ones in phpBB. making sure css is served gzipped ( rule #4) and also making sure php pages are served gzipped) copying images and css to the new subdomainsДҐ. moving CSS to an external file (rule #8), merging the two css files ( rule #1)Д¤. creating a new template (theme) based on the default subSilver templateДЈ. creating two subdomains to host assets - images and css, maximizing parallel downloads (also following rule #9)Дў. As an example, I'll use the /phpBB2, the board I volunteer to administrate. During this short workshop there will be no changes to the phpBB code, we'll create a new template instead, so that in case something bad happens, your board will continue to work normally. I'll follow Yahoo's 14 optimization rules, but only implement the ones that apply for phpBB. Let's go ahead and optimize our phpBB installation for front-end performance.