By alfthecat on

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a way to pull off the folowing trick:

For a drupal site I am building right now, I would like to make it available ONLY on a certain day of the week. So I'm looking for a way to put it in maintenance mode automatically when it is any other day of the week other than the one I specified.

Does anyone have an idea on how to pull this off?

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nevets commented

You could make a small module that implements hook_cron(). It could set/clear the appropriate information (what ever happens when you manually put the site in maintenance mode)

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alfthecat commented

Hey nevets, thanks for the reply. I've never embarked on creating modules, do you perhaps have a good suggestion for me to start my journey into mastering this skill? :)

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nevets commented

You'll need the first two steps here: http://drupal.org/node/206753, "Getting Started" and "Telling Drupal about your module". The information for hook_cron is here: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_cron/6 (remember 'hook' gets replaced by your module name).