Turn forum on and off from outside vBulletin?
 

Hi. Is there way to turn my forum off without manually having to go into the Adminintrator Control Panel and turn it off in the settings? Is it possible to turn off a vBulletin forum by using the Data Manager? Thanks.

You'd have to run a query to edit the settings table and set the board inactive.

Then rebuild the options datastore. (build_options() - adminfunctions.php)

Thanks. I looked in the code and can see how that is done.

Simply including the adminfunctions.php file and calling build_options() doesn't work, I presume because special variables and database connections aren't available.

Can anyone offer any other suggestions?

Include the global.php from the admincp directory, then include adminfunctions.php :).