Downtime system

[plasmagames]

I would like to get a downtime system going, where you(admin) can check a box that enables downtime. When in downtime, if you go to the site it displays a page, that says a message like  "Plasma Steel Games is Temporary Down for maintenance"  with a liek below that allows admins to login so that you can take it out of Downtime mode. Post if you can help me out.

[ratcateme]

you could use .htaccess and redirect user to a special page.

if you have a common file included on one page you could make a script to edit it or something and add a say

echo "server is down<a href=admin.php>admin</a>";

exit;

 

Scott.

[plasmagames]

is that the way smf does it?

[DeanWhitehouse]

For my site i just use a included file in all pages that checks the DB or flat file to see if the site is closed, if so then redirect all page requests to a certain page (unless logged in) and show them the reason it is closed.

[elis]

 

You'd need to add a table in your db and have a function of some sort that checks against it, and is also included in every page.

 

An untested snippet would probably look  like

<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tablename") or die(mysql_error()); 
$row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
if($row[downtime] == 1)
{
echo "your downtime message"; }
else 
{
your usual site content 
}
?>

 

An then include the above in an external file on every page.

 

 

[plasmagames]

could i change the

{
your usual site content 
}

 

to

 

{
header( 'Location: http://plasmasteelgames.net ) ;
}

 

and put all your code in a php file and include it in the config.php file