Turn forum on and off from outside vBulletin?

[Dylan Leblanc]

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.

[Opserty]

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)

[Dylan Leblanc]

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

[Dylan Leblanc]

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?

[Dismounted]

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