[TYPO3-dev] Fail-safe mechanism for database connectivity problem

[Martin Kutschker]

John Angel schrieb:
> 
> Please advise.

In what way do you need advice? What you want should be technically 
possible as there is an "on-chache" hook that allows you to write a page to 
the file system or do whatever you want.

For the DB part you have probably to hack into the initialization code to 
fetch you cached copy from the disk. Remember that you need a URL-to-file 
mapping that does not rely on the DB (perhaps a clever naming scheme or a 
eg Berkely DB file DB), but beware of simualte static and Real URL!

The next issue is that you need to deal with the fact that there are 
possibly pages affected by user sessions (eg restricted areas) and of 
course all the non-cached dynamic pages. I have no idea what to do woth 
them except to present a "not-available" page in the site design.

Masi