Board Disable - Special

[Stoker]

Board Disable - Special

Author: cherokee red for Stoker
Description: A nice phpBB3 board disable screen, used on phpbb.com and now here.
Screenshot:

disable.png

Instructions:
Open language/en/common.php
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?>

Add before:

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// Board disable
$lang = array_merge($lang, array(
	'DISABLE_MESSAGE'   	 	 	 => 'Board unavailable',
	'DISABLE_RETURN'   	 	 	 => 'Return to index page',
));

Open includes/sessions.php
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if ($this->data['is_bot'])
			{
				send_status_line(503, 'Service Unavailable');
			}

			$message = (!empty($config['board_disable_msg'])) ? $config['board_disable_msg'] : 'BOARD_DISABLE';
			trigger_error($message);

Replace with:

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header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable');
            header('Status: 503 Service Unavailable');

            $template->assign_vars(array(
                'MESSAGE'    => $config['board_disable_msg'],
                'DISABLE'    => $this->lang['DISABLE_MESSAGE'])
            );

            page_header($this->lang['OFFLINE']);

            $template->set_filenames(array(
                   'body' => 'board_disable.html'
            ));

            page_footer();

            exit;

Unzip and upload this file to your template folder:

board_disable.zip

Thats it, enjoy!

[martin123456]

Have you thought about adding your count down timer to this page so it displays a short message and then a timer ?

ie

we are fixing some major errors that our new nub staff member made so will be open in !

(counter here) 7 years and 3 months and 64 days

note the days lol

[Stoker]

Yes, it could easily be added to the html file.