Re: 'Site under maintenance' option

Quickly off the top of my head I would set a boolean variable in my
App Controller (which could be served from database via a EAV style
settings model) then depending on the value you could override $this-
>Auth->allow(); declarations and maybe $this->Auth->loginScope(); if
you only wanted particular users/groups to be able to access the site.

You could also pass the variable to the login view to alter the login
required message reflecting that the site is in maintenance mode.

HTH, Paul
@phpMagpie

On Sep 5, 8:45 pm, Xoubaman <xouba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a system to disable the site temporaly for
> maintenance purposes or whatever. If the site is disabled, only logged users
> can navigate through it, non-logged users are redirected to a "Site under
> maintenance" layout.
>
> Currently (o "As of now"), my approach is to allow a "secret url" that will
> lead to the login form, check in AppController::beforefilter if the current
> url is the allowed one and, if it isn't, set the maintenance layout. Trying
> to figure out how to allow only one url to log in, I came to define it as a
> constant in bootstrap and add the route in config/routes pointing to
> UsersController::login.
>
> It would be nice to save the secret url into the database and change it
> without editing bootstrap.php, though.
>
> Any suggestion?

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