this way would be much faster than Cache. (i was thinking of releasing this once UBB6 was in final as "UBB6 Lite" a megahack that modified everything.but god knows i know little to nothing about perl scripting, so maybe one of you people can make good use of this idea.

convert the whole UBB into CGI/SSI it would work the same way as the cache (if you sig or something changes, it changes in all posts/replies)

you know how when a new member is created it makes a file for that member?
example: 000001.cgi
well it could create a couple of more files...

1 for you sig, 1 for your post count, 1 for you avatar (can you say hack addon?) , and other's.

and they would have the same number as your member number but it would have the exstension .txt or .html

and you could use this little code to call it

and it would show up where you want it.

i have a few other idea's...but like i said, i wanna make a megahack and i will...(once i find a perl program, or a REEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLYY GOOD tutorial

anyways in closing, this way would save lots of loading time, seeing as the files would be in your cache and would load from your cache after a couple of visits instead of the server. all the HTML based hacks could be returned if we used this system, seeing as it brings back the HTML.

ok, that's enough typing for now.

ultra, im planning to do all my "hacks" using different files to store information, like avatars/whatever stored in a separete file. thats if i make any, im reading thru Ted's new ubb price notice, and theres something bothering me...

yeah the new price is scaring me too...it makes me think more and more that infopop just wants UBB for dedicated server's and big giant mega-sites instead of the tiny sites some members have...

While this sounds good in theory, it's *NOT*.

SSI can be just as intensive in terms of CPU time as a Perl process would be. Dozens of SSIs on a page would be nearly as expensive as Perl doing the same thing.

An SSI based forum could potentially produce a HIGHER load on the server.

im not planning on using ssi, im planning on keep other info in other files so the upgrade not being a pain. but id appreciate a lecture about file i/o if u have some.