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not sure where to put this question...
does anyone have a suggestion for a way to run a daily task on my UBB? I want to swap one of the configuration files so that the board has one configuration at certain times of day, and a different one at different times.
wondering if there's a simple script that could automatically do this.
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well you could just write a script at the top of ultimatebb.cgi that would override settings based on the time of day. something like if(time < 6) {
$vars_config{BBName} = "Monkey";
} else {
$vars_config{BBName} = "Normal Name";
}
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wow... that's *exactly* what I was looking for. Thanks!!!
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don't use that code though, that's pseudo code. If you can explain what you want more, I should be able to help
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OK. What I want to do is switch the board from open from around 10pm - 8am, to members only during the day. That way I can let spiders in at night, and keep the lurkers out during the day.  from what I can tell, this setting is contained in just one variables file, so swapping two versions of the same variables file back and forth would achieve this result, correct?
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ah, that's easy.. in theory. do you use the php accelerator as well?
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Give this a shot In ultimatebb.cgi FIND: } #if not do_login
# members only access check ADD AFTER: if($GotTime{hour} > 16 || $GotTime{hour} < 6)
{
$vars_display{MembersOnlyAccess} = 'YES';
}
else
{
$vars_display{MembersOnlyAccess} = 'NO';
}In ultimatebb.php FIND: require ("./vars_config.inc.php");ADD AFTER: if(date("H") > 18 || date("H") < 6)
{
$MembersOnlyAccess= "NO";
}
else
{
$MembersOnlyAccess= "YES";
}18 being 6PM, 6 being 6AM, edit to your liking. Also keep in mind those times are server times, so you might need to adjust them to where your members are
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hmmm... not sure if it's working. Does it matter what the members-only setting on the control panel is after this mod is done?
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no, I wrote it to ignore that.
Show me the code you added (mainly want to see the numbers)
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ok, in ultimatebb.cgi I put: if($GotTime{hour} > 23 || $GotTime{hour} < 6)
{
$vars_display{MembersOnlyAccess} = 'YES';
}
else
{
$vars_display{MembersOnlyAccess} = 'NO';
}and in .php I put -- if(date("H") > 23 || date("H") < 7)
{
$MembersOnlyAccess= "NO";
}
else
{
$MembersOnlyAccess= "YES";
}whoops... I see one problem already, I put different times in each... I'll fix it. I want it to be open to all from 11pm - 7am.
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keep in mind that your server time might be different from your computer time. If you had to add a time offset in your profile (ie, I had to add +5 in my profile to get correct times) then you'll need to do something similar here. If you added 5 hours in your profile, you'd need to add 5 to each of the numbers (and edit accordingly if it goes over 24)
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the server time is on Central Time and I am on Eastern, so it shouldn't make a big enough difference to be the problem (at least not at this time of day).
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another interesting side effect with this mod is that it's still letting unregistered people in, but the PHP accelerator doesn't run, just ultimatebb.cgi.
When logged in, everything works as normal.
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at midnight, did you try to access the site while logged out? BAH! I believe I forgot some code before the code in ultimatebb.cgi, add
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aha! I figured it out... the code was set for members only access as "YES" for 11pm -7am, whereas I wanted it members only during the day time. it seems to be working now... thanks for all your help. 
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