Board Optimizations - vB AJAX Cron

vB AJAX Cron From vBModder.com

This is such a small but useful mod that I decided to give it away free. This mod will replace your sheduled task image code at the bottom of your pages and run your sheduled tasks via an AJAX call.

AJAX is asyncronous and offers true background running of sheduled tasks. This does not change anything with the actual tasks or the scripts that run them. It merely replaces the method that initiates the running of those scripts.

There are no template edits of any kind. Simply upload the files to your forumhome directory and import the product xml file. Both 3.5x and 3.6x xml files are included. Make sure you use the right one as there are changes in crons with 3.6x.

This should work in any vb or custom script in any directory.
Support will only be given at vbmodder.com


Enjoy

[BigJohnny]

sweet cool man ....... though im really not sure what this does .... i dont know what scheduled task image your talking about

[Code Monkey]

Currently, when vb needs to run a sheduled task, it loads image code at the bottom of your forum page. Except it has a php file as the src of the img tag. This causes the php file to run which in turn runs the next scheduled task. This can, depending on the cron to run and the size of the site, cause a browser to seemingly hang until the script is finished running. This happens because this is a syncronous event. Meaning, it's waiting for the page to finish loading the image.

This mod replaces that with an asyncronous AJAX call to the cron script.

The image code has served vb well but with the advent of AJAX type methods there is a cleaner way to do it. That's what this does.

[navid]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Currently, when vb needs to run a sheduled task, it loads image code at the bottom of your forum page. Except it has a php file as the src of the img tag. This causes the php file to run which in turn runs the next scheduled task. This can, depending on the cron to run and the size of the site, cause a browser to seemingly hang until the script is finished running. This happens because this is a syncronous event. Meaning, it's waiting for the page to finish loading the image.

This mod replaces that with an asyncronous AJAX call to the cron script.

The image code has served vb well but with the advent of AJAX type methods there is a cleaner way to do it. That's what this does.

nice hack mate and
thanks for your explain.

[Code Monkey]

No problem

[Code Monkey]

Updated. This should now work on any pages. The fix actually eliminated many lines of php code.

[BigJohnny]

so this is 1.1.1 now?

[Code Monkey]

yes it is.

[Dan2k3k4]

* Dan2k3k4 installs

Thanks

[takiye]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Currently, when vb needs to run a sheduled task, it loads image code at the bottom of your forum page. Except it has a php file as the src of the img tag. This causes the php file to run which in turn runs the next scheduled task. This can, depending on the cron to run and the size of the site, cause a browser to seemingly hang until the script is finished running. This happens because this is a syncronous event. Meaning, it's waiting for the page to finish loading the image.

This mod replaces that with an asyncronous AJAX call to the cron script.

The image code has served vb well but with the advent of AJAX type methods there is a cleaner way to do it. That's what this does.

A more clear explanation, can u? :confused:
I installed this hack, and is expected to know its benefit.