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Il giorno 16/ago/09, alle ore 15:35, DaB. ha scritto:
Hello all,
at the moment it is difficult to inform our toolusers (people that use our tools) about planed maintainces, downtimes and other important things.
I agree.
So I had the idea today that a kind of global sitenotice (like the one in the wikimedia-projects) would be nice and a easy solution for that. The easiest way to implement it is IMHO a simple textfile, that toolauthors may/can/should/whatever insert in their tools. I created such a file, it can be found at /var/www/sitenotice on wolfsbane and via http://toolserver.org/sitenotice. For normal the file would be empty or contains only a empty div-container. If the roots know about a planed downtime or an important change, they would insert a short text in the file and our toolusers would be informed.
I would like only simple text, it's more flexible: on TS we've several kinds of tools, and not all of them output HTML.
Please comment at the toolserver-mailinglist and tell me/us if you would implement the sitenotice in your tools.
I've implemented this in my tools (e.g. http://toolserver.org/~pietrodn/intersectContribs.php) , here is the simple code I wrote down (in case it could be useful to someone):
function print_globalnotice() { $text = file_get_contents('/var/www/sitenotice'); if($text != '') { echo '<div id="globalnotice">' . $text . '</div>'; } }
And the CSS:
#globalnotice { border: 1px solid silver; background: lightyellow; padding: 3px; }
"I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, Can you hear me?" Pietrodn powerpdn@gmail.com