[FX.php List] "site down for maintenance" include?

[Dale Bengston]

I don't know how you're doing your page organization, but you could  
only do the view on the login page, and shut the door accordingly. If  
you used a completely stripped layout, your overhead would be pretty  
minimal. Performing a view doesn't return field data, just info about  
the layout.

Dale

On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Thanks Dale
>
> An FMView would add overhead to the page load, though, wouldn't  
> it?  (An additional hit to the DB on every page, including on non- 
> login pages that do return FM data)
>
> Seems like a choice between the extra step of changing the php  
> include whenever I bring the DBs down -- as per Andy's suggestion  
> -- or having the site automatically know when the DBs are down but  
> having an extra hit to the DB on every page (though this would be a  
> more elegant solution in situations where the DBs are down  
> unintentionally.)
>
> Thanks,
> -Joel
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Joel,
>>
>> You could perform a simple FMView from your login page and trap  
>> for any errors. Errors result in the "Site Closed" notice. No  
>> errors gets the more typical user experience.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Has anybody implemented a procedure to automatically alert users  
>>> when a site is down due to the FM files being closed on FMSA?
>>>
>>> I'm thinking an include on every page that could check if the DB  
>>> is available, and if not, present a friendly message to site- 
>>> visitors and then a php exit;
>>>
>>> Would this work?  Is there a specific FX error to easily check for?
>>>
>>> This would be for when the DB needs to be closed for updating, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Joel
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