How to setup maintenance mode in CodeIgniter

Web Development
April 27, 2020

In this post, I will show you how easy it is to setup maintenance mode in CodeIgniter using CI’s hooks. while updating your web application its always better to show meaningful maintenance message to the end users, instead of showing errors.

We gonna use CIs hooks to set up the maintenance page. Using hooks you can extend the Framework Core. CodeIgniter’s Hooks feature provides a means to tap into and modify the inner workings of the framework without hacking the core files.

Let’s create a file called maintenance_view.php in application/views directory with below content:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <!-- Required meta tags -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
 
    <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Gn5384xqQ1aoWXA+058RXPxPg6fy4IWvTNh0E263XmFcJlSAwiGgFAW/dAiS6JXm" crossorigin="anonymous">
 
    <title>Hello, world!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    
    <h1 class="text-center">Site Under Maintenance</h1>
    <div class="container">
            <p class="text-center">Sorry for the inconvenience. To improve our services, we have momentarily shutdown our site.</p>
    </div>
 
    <!-- Optional JavaScript -->
    <!-- jQuery first, then Popper.js, then Bootstrap JS -->
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-KJ3o2DKtIkvYIK3UENzmM7KCkRr/rE9/Qpg6aAZGJwFDMVNA/GpGFF93hXpG5KkN" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-ApNbgh9B+Y1QKtv3Rn7W3mgPxhU9K/ScQsAP7hUibX39j7fakFPskvXusvfa0b4Q" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JZR6Spejh4U02d8jOt6vLEHfe/JQGiRRSQQxSfFWpi1MquVdAyjUar5+76PVCmYl" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  </body>
</html>

To use hooks, you need to enable hooks, so edit the application/config/config.php file and set $config[‘enable_hooks’] to TRUE.

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How to setup maintenance mode in CodeIgniter