question about turning a website on and off

[stelthius]

Hello everyone,

 

i just want to know what language should i use to enable or disable my website, this is a new task for me but im unsure what language it would be coded in to do it, if anyone has used vbulletin you'll know what i mean by turning it on and off.

 

 

Rick

[Daniel0]

In the same language you are programming the rest of your site it. It's a simple conditional statement you need to do.

[stelthius]

Ahhh ok kool, well im using php so im gonna read up on that hopefully find something helpfull   thank you

[.josh]

There's a million ways to implement something like that, depending on what your "website" is.  But it basically boils down to a simple condition:

 

$sitestatus = 0; // random variable name. 1 = 1, 0 = off

if($sitestatus == 0) { 
  // echo site is 'turned off' message
} else {
   // display page or do whatever 
}

 

You would have a hardcoded variable or a value in a column in a database or something in a flatfile or whatever.  1 = on, 0 = off.  Then it's a simple matter of checking whether the variable is 1 or 0.  You can do that in any language meant for "websites".

[waynew]

With every site I make, I always include a master file in each page, so that things like this can be sorted out pretty quickly. You can't imagine how many times this has proven to be useful.