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Forum opening hours

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I'm looking for a way to keep my forum open to users only during certain hours.
(based on the time zone set in the admin panel)

Monday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Saturday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Outside these hours the forum should lock automatically.

It is practically impossible to close this manually every day. We have an extremely busy forum and on our forum every message must be read and answered. Our ages vary greatly and some users are online 24/24. This is the only solution to give the entire team a bit of peace
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Re: Forum opening hours

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Should be feasible with a cron job but I'm not sure how (calling Disable board should be simple, as should be re-enabling it, I think).
But disabled implies that the only Admins and Moderators will be able to see the contents. Other users will just see the index with a "The board is disabled " (or something similar).

I've got a faint memory of having seen a host configuration possibility somewhere: allowing viewing a website at specified times only.

The feature as such seems interesting enough to be a default feature (perhaps the feature has been requested in the past)
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Re: Forum opening hours

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warmweer wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 10:20 am Should be feasible with a cron job but I'm not sure how (calling Disable board should be simple, as should be re-enabling it, I think.
But disabled implies that the only Admins and Moderators will be able to see the contents. Other users will just see the index with a "The board is disabled " (or something similar).

I've got a faint memory of having seen a host configuration possibility somewhere: allowing viewing a website at specified times only.
I would then adjust the text with "We are currently closed".

administrators and moderarots is no problem. They can now also be added if you disable the forum.


The nicest and nicest thing would also be a pop-up about the index (when disabled) with the opening hours etc., but this might make it much more complicated.

If you can make disabling the forum automatically (as it already is via acp) then it is actually what I am looking for.

Never seen that this could possibly be done via the host. The forum must remain visible at all times.
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Re: Forum opening hours

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So are you saying that the disable board feature from the ACP is an acceptable solution IF it was automatic in opening and closing the forum? Or would you want the forum to close in a different way?
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Re: Forum opening hours

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danieltj wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 10:39 am So are you saying that the disable board feature from the ACP is an acceptable solution IF it was automatic in opening and closing the forum? Or would you want the forum to close in a different way?
The way it is now via ACP, but automatically, is perfect.
Switch on every day at 8:00 am and close again at 11:00 pm.
I can place the opening hours perfectly in the footer.
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If I understand the request correctly, it is necessary to prohibit user connection, and possibly registration, at certain times of the day. The board must always remain accessible to administrators?
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ssl wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:32 pm If I understand the request correctly, it is necessary to prohibit user connection, and possibly registration, at certain times of the day. The board must always remain accessible to administrators?
I wouldn't go as far as to prohibit user connection: but only allow reading (and perhaps editing personal settings).
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Re: Forum opening hours

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ssl wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:32 pm If I understand the request correctly, it is necessary to prohibit user connection, and possibly registration, at certain times of the day. The board must always remain accessible to administrators?
If you now disable the forum, only moderators and administrators can access the forum. Registrations are therefore not possible. The default settings are perfect. Now only close automatically at 11:00 PM and open again at 8:00 AM.
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I think it would be in your interest to keep the board read-only during closing hours, so as not to bore your users.
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Re: Forum opening hours

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ssl wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 2:04 pm I think it would be in your interest to keep the board read-only during closing hours, so as not to bore your users.
Not necessary, I prefer to keep it as simple as possible. I would be very happy if someone has the solution.
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Re: Forum opening hours

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In terms of styling in the footer, I have already achieved it myself. Now for the final function... I actually have no idea about that at all. If this topic ultimately belongs better in custom coding, then move it.

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<div class="openingsuren">
<table>
    <tr><th>Openingsuren:</th></tr>
    <tr>Maandag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
    <tr>Dinsdag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
    <tr>Woensdag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
    <tr>Donderdag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
    <tr>Vrijdag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
	<tr>Zaterdag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
	<tr>Zondag:<td>8:00uur - 23:00uur<br></td></tr>
</table>
</div>

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.openingsuren {
	float: right;
	padding: 5px 10px;
	clear: both;
}
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Re: Forum opening hours

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I had a look at core to see how the disable board function works and it seems a lot of it is handled in the user functions file. Might be worth starting there and seeing what you can find.

S_DISABLE_BOARD is a template that’s set somewhere as well which might help back trace where the board decides if it’s disabled or not.
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Re: Forum opening hours

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danieltj wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:26 pm I had a look at core to see how the disable board function works and it seems a lot of it is handled in the user functions file. Might be worth starting there and seeing what you can find.

S_DISABLE_BOARD is a template that’s set somewhere as well which might help back trace where the board decides if it’s disabled or not.
The only thing I've found so far is...

functions.php:

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		'S_BOARD_DISABLED'		=> ($config['board_disable']) ? true : false,
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Re: Forum opening hours

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Haha, yeah that's what I meant, sorry I was posting from my phone.

You have this php event you can use to update the template variables: core.page_header_after.

All you need to do is figure out if the user is an admin or not and if they're not, check if it's opening time and if isn't then update the board disabled variable to close the forum. There's also core.page_header which is a php event you can use which is earlier on in the file.

I hope this was at least somewhat helpful!
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Re: Forum opening hours

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I'm sorry but your last message is a bit Chinese to me. In which php file should I look for that event? I don't know at all what code to look for or replace there. I can't write PHP myself.

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