phpwcms Support Forum

let me try to better explain the situation... there's actually two thoughts going on in this post... which are addressing both issues i'm having... before i get to the "Down for maintence/work-behind part"


I'm trying to understand the part of turning off articles where only the admin can see...

Well, when i log in, i turn off public/visible for the articles

but when i hit preview it doesn't show the article... just like if you were to visit the site as a guest...

but if i change the article to public and hit preview... then i see the article !!!

I was thinking, i could preview the article regardless if i was admin or logged in user with backend access... if that make sense.... **8looking for the frustrated GRRRRRR icon*** LOL!

Ahhhh...NOPE
Preview means show me how the content will look WITH THE CURRENT SETTINGS (including visble/public, hidden articles and article start dates, ETC).
In other words...WHAT ARE MY VISITORS GONNA SEE.

DeXXus wrote:Ahhhh...NOPE
Preview means show me how the content will look WITH THE CURRENT SETTINGS (including visble/public, hidden articles and article start dates, ETC).
In other words...WHAT ARE MY VISITORS GONNA SEE.

"ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i see" ding ding there goes the bells... now i follow....lol **slaps forehead**

is there anyway to preview the newly added/updated content without the public being able to see it?

and what's the difference between public & visible??? if either one of these icons are deactivated/red then i can't see the content.. why not just have one "V"

because the only way i can see content period is for both of them is to be green... and i'm thinking admin should be able to see content in the layout regardless..

Hi

as long as you're logged in in Backend, you will see all Articles, it doesn't matter what State a Article has public/not Public

To see what a Visitor see, you have to log out or open another Browser

ok i think i understand the flow now... thx guys for all of your help

Goran wrote:Here's a temporary solution, works fine on my test installation...now you can turn off the phpWCMS frontend for non admin users in conf.inc.php, just set $phpwcms['down_for_maintenance'] to 1.
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1. Create html file closed.html in phpWCMS root directory
2. Open config/phpwcms/conf.inc.php and enable sessions in frontend:

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$phpwcms['SESSION_FEinit']    = 1; 

3. Same file(config.inc.php), add this code under // other stuff group:

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$phpwcms['down_for_maintenance']    = 1; // set 1 to disable frontend for non admin users

4. Open index.php and find this line: require_once (PHPWCMS_ROOT.'/config/phpwcms/conf.template_default.inc.php');
and add the following code before/above:

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if($phpwcms["down_for_maintenance"] && empty($_SESSION["wcs_user_admin"])) {
	headerRedirect($phpwcms['site'].$phpwcms["root"].'closed.html');
}

this worked perfectly for shutting down the site for maintenance!!!