UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat So what's faster?

Haven't been around here in a while...
So if this has been covered before, apologies.

Ultimatebb.cgi or Ultimatebb.php?

Are all the files .php, or is it only a few?

Yes, I know some server configurations might affect whatever blah blah, but say, on the UBBDev server, what runs faster, responds faster etc?

Do you need any special things to be enabled on the server? (modules etc)

Thanks for any help

The reason there is .php is because it's faster and takes less bandwidth.

The .php extension is only to open cache, therefore there isn't any other file except ultimatebb.php (and vars_config.inc.php, ofcourse). If the cached file won't exist, it will redirect to ultimatebb.cgi and then it will be slower (both ultimatebb.php and ultimatebb.cgi instead of only ultimatebb.cgi), but it's worth it I suggest you to use it unless you turned cache off or you're using hacks that don't support PHP, like WOL CGI version and jordo's PM hack, and it's important for you that they'll work every time. (jordo's version, for example, doesn't have a big problem because the forum summary should be linked to .cgi because .php doesn't support cookies, so in rare cases, that it's .php, it's not so important)

Thanks LK for the informative response

hmm.. just noticed the 'topic review' at the bottom of the reply box has all the text centered...looks neat... is that by default or..? (just an incidental question)