[phpbb2] Moving servers and you dont’ want to completely disable your board?

Are you moving servers and you don’t want any new posts in your database?

You can use the “disable” board option in your ACP.
However … this has a great disadvantage, namely your whole board is invisible unless you’re an admin.

Apply this mod and only you ( user_id = 2 ) will be able to post. All others cannot post/reply/edit/quote and will see a general notice.

OPEN
[code:1:e7941ff91a]posting.php[/code:1:e7941ff91a]

FIND
[code:1:e7941ff91a]//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_POSTING);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//[/code:1:e7941ff91a]

AFTER, ADD
[code:1:e7941ff91a]
// MOD by Ramon Fincken (http://www.ramonfincken.com) Disable posting except for main admin, because you want to move (database-)servers.
// http://www.ramonfincken.com/permalink/topic131.html
if($userdata[’user_id’] != 2)
{
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, ‘We are moving servers, posting is temporary disabled to keep our database up to date.<br>Please come back later’);
}
[/code:1:e7941ff91a]