[FX.php List] Planning ahead for inactive processes

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Hi Folks,

At an increasing rate, I'm seeing that bots and past visitors with 
bookmarks (?) are attempting to re-visit processes that have long 
been retired.  The purpose for the original pages has expired.  The 
original database might not even be running.

I'm looking for how I can best plan ahead during development, to deal 
with the day that the pages are no longer valid.  It's no fun opening 
up the code after 6 months and re-learning.

Obviously, simply removing the link to the start of the process isn't 
the solution.

I'm thinking that one good option is to create a variable in 
server_data that serves as an on off switch or data limiter.  Page 
handling code at the top of each page could check for the variable to 
decide if the pages are still valid or not. I'd rather do it while 
the code is fresh in my mind rather than after.

What do other folks do?

J
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Jonathan Schwartz
Exit 445 Group
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