The more general approach and issue here is that this problem -- though possibly seldomly used -- is one that very few non-developers would ever have a clue how to do. In addition, such thoughfulness begins to make Drupal look like an actual "community-friendly" environment, instead of just "community-plumbing" with lots of sharp edges and ugly design that it takes a whole community to brute-force in order to figure out how to use it. If it's just a couple of lines of code and an extra button and it saves 10 people 2 hours each, that's what will make Drupal a success, not the microscopic size of the download. Chris On 9/29/05, Gerhard Killesreiter <killesreiter@physik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Dries Buytaert wrote:
On 28 Sep 2005, at 20:51, Chris Messina wrote:
Take Frontend Offline This will disable your front-end for non-superusers displaying your Maintainence page instead. If not maintainence page is found a default message is presented.
Hey, I just did that on drupal.org today! I needed exclusive access to drupal.org for a couple minutes. I had to modify index.php for it though ...
I guess you will agree with me that wasting screen space and code lines on a button that one needs once every few months isn't worth it...
Cheers, Gerhard