Custom Disable Board Page

Last.fm · by **kenny** » 04 Jun 2009, 23:52

Requested by stokerpiller in this topic, this snippet allows a lot better customisation of the disabled board message that your users see when the board is disabled. It chages the trigger_error to a completely new page, styled using the ACP as a template.

You can easily changeany aspect of this page - all you need is some simple HTML/CSS knowledge. You can add any custom variables you wish also

Comment:
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#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
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includes/session.php
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#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#

Code: Select all: // Is board disabled and user not an admin or moderator? if ($config['board_disable'] && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && !$auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') && !$auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) { header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable'); $message = (!empty($config['board_disable_msg'])) ? $config['board_disable_msg'] : 'BOARD_DISABLE'; trigger_error($message); }

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#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------
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Code: Select all: // Is board disabled and user not an admin or moderator? if ($config['board_disable'] && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && !$auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') && !$auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) { header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable'); header('Status: 503 Service Unavailable'); $template->assign_vars(array( 'MESSAGE' => $config['board_disable_msg'], 'DISABLE' => $this->lang['BOARD_DISABLE']) ); page_header($this->lang['OFFLINE']); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'board_disable.html' )); page_footer(); exit; }

Now, you need to save the following code as board_disable.html and place it in your styles/STYLE_NAME/template/ folder.

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}" lang="{S_USER_LANG}" xml:lang="{S_USER_LANG}"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}" /> <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="{S_USER_LANG}" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="resource-type" content="document" /> <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="copyright" content="2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> {META} <title>{SITENAME} • {PAGE_TITLE}</title> <link href="../adm/style/admin.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body id="errorpage"> <div id="wrap" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width: 70%"> <div id="page-header"> </div> <div id="page-body"> <div id="acp"> <div class="panel"> <span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div id="content"> <h1>{L_INFORMATION}</h1> <h2>{DISABLE}</strong></h2> <br /> <p>{MESSAGE}</p> </div> <span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div id="page-footer"> Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/">phpBB Group</a><br /> </div> </div> </body> </html>

You still disable the forum in the normal way - via the ACP - and add in your custom message. This message will display on the custom page. I've attached a screenshot below as an example.

NB*: If for any reason you disable the board and then log out, simply go to ucp.php?mode=login and you will be able to log back in and re-enable your forum

Alternatively, you could add a link to the login page in the HTML file.

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Last.fm · by **kenny** » 14 Jun 2009, 16:05

After updating a couple of other sites to phpBB 3.0.5 and having their boards disabled, I came up with a few more enhancements for this. Make the following changes (NB* these changes depend on you following the steps in the 1st post).

Comment:
#
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
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includes/functions.php
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#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#

Code: Select all: 'S_BOARD_DISABLED' => ($config['board_disable']) ? true : false,

#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#

Code: Select all: 'S_INSTALL_FOLDER_EXISTS' => (file_exists($phpbb_root_path . 'install')) ? true : false,

#
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
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includes/session.php
#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#

Code: Select all: // Disable board if the install/ directory is still present // For the brave development army we do not care about this, else we need to comment out this everytime we develop locally if (!defined('DEBUG_EXTRA') && !defined('ADMIN_START') && !defined('IN_INSTALL') && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && file_exists($phpbb_root_path . 'install')) { // Adjust the message slightly according to the permissions if ($auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') || $auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) { $message = 'REMOVE_INSTALL'; } else { $message = (!empty($config['board_disable_msg'])) ? $config['board_disable_msg'] : 'BOARD_DISABLE'; } trigger_error($message); } // Is board disabled and user not an admin or moderator? if ($config['board_disable'] && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && !$auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') && !$auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) {

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#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------
#

Code: Select all: /* // Disable board if the install/ directory is still present // For the brave development army we do not care about this, else we need to comment out this everytime we develop locally if (!defined('DEBUG_EXTRA') && !defined('ADMIN_START') && !defined('IN_INSTALL') && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && file_exists($phpbb_root_path . 'install')) { // Adjust the message slightly according to the permissions if ($auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') || $auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) { $message = 'REMOVE_INSTALL'; } else { $message = (!empty($config['board_disable_msg'])) ? $config['board_disable_msg'] : 'BOARD_DISABLE'; } trigger_error($message); } */ // Is board disabled and user not an admin or moderator? if ($config['board_disable'] && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && !$auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') && !$auth->acl_getf_global('m_') && !defined('DEBUG_EXTRA') && !defined('ADMIN_START') && !defined('IN_INSTALL') || file_exists($phpbb_root_path . 'install') && !$auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') && !$auth->acl_getf_global('m_') && !defined('IN_LOGIN')) {

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#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
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styles/YOUR_STYLE/template/overall_header.html
#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#

Code: Select all:  <div id="message" class="rules"> <div class="inner"><span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <strong>{L_INFORMATION}:</strong> {L_BOARD_DISABLED} <span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span></div> </div>

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#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------
#

Edit: I realise that there is hard coded text here, but you can easily add your own language file for it if you wish

Code: Select all:  <div id="message" class="rules"> <div class="inner"><span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <strong>{L_INFORMATION}:</strong> {L_BOARD_DISABLED} Install folder still resides on the server <span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span></div> </div>

by **Dakin Quelia** » 27 Jun 2010, 01:45

Hello,

I suggest this code for php:

Code: Select all: // Is board disabled and user not an admin or moderator? if ($config['board_disable'] && !defined('IN_LOGIN') && !$auth->acl_gets('a_', 'm_') && !$auth->acl_getf_global('m_')) { if ($this->data['is_bot']) { header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable'); header('Status: 503 Service Unavailable'); } $template->assign_vars(array( 'MESSAGE' => (!empty($config['board_disable_msg'])) ? $config['board_disable_msg'] : 'BOARD_DISABLE') ); page_header($this->lang['OFFLINE']); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'board_disable.html' )); page_footer(); exit; }

Template file:

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{S_CONTENT_DIRECTION}" lang="{S_USER_LANG}" xml:lang="{S_USER_LANG}"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset={S_CONTENT_ENCODING}" /> <meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="{S_USER_LANG}" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="resource-type" content="document" /> <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="copyright" content="2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> {META} <title>{SITENAME} • {PAGE_TITLE}</title> <link href="{ROOT_PATH}/adm/style/admin.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body id="errorpage"> <div id="wrap" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width: 100%"> <div id="page-header"></div> <div id="page-body"> <div id="acp"> <div class="panel"> <span class="corners-top"><span></span></span> <div id="content"> <h1>{L_INFORMATION}</h1> <hr /> <p>{MESSAGE}</p> </div> <span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span> </div> </div> </div> <div id="page-footer"> Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/">phpBB Group</a><br /> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

See you soon,