Daily Maintenance Message

mark_and_co

Hi Guys,

I have a site, which every morning, as soon as the first person logs onto the site actions several function including generating reports etc. This process takes around 45-50 seconds.

I have put this into a popup window, thinking that it could display a message and action the functions.

This is the code for the popup page:
<html><head><title>Popup</title></head><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://<?php print $HTTP_HOST; ?>/style.css">
<body bgcolor="699AB6" marginheight=5 topmargin=5 marginwidth=5 leftmargin=5 <? $todayint = date("w", time());if (($num_maintenance_main==0)&&(($todayint!=0)&&($todayint!=6))) {echo"onload=\"window.close()\"";}?>>
<br><div align="center"><table id="message"><tr><td id="message" align="center">Please Wait...<br><br>This site is currently doing it's scheduled maintenance.<br>It should take no longer than 45 seconds.</td></tr></table></div>
</body></html>
<?php include ('maintenance.php'); ?>

However, it only displays a blank page and then closes after it's finished. Does anyone know how to get this message displayed before it starts actioning the functions?

Cheers
Mark

khaldryck

maybe that's the onload windows close() ...

why not make a cron job starting every morning to do the maintenance, without the need of a user logging in ?
that way, you don't need to tell the user.

if someone would log while the site is in maintenance, then you could echo your text and reload your index.php when it's done.