[pmwiki-users] Creating wiki files externally

[writeon1]

Good idea-
I'd be happy to try it out.
Brendan (writeon1)

The Editor wrote:
> On 5/11/07, writeon1 <writeon1 at mchsi.com> wrote:
>> I keep data in a database and generate html or wiki files using the
>> report writer. Then I upload to my website. I've found this very time
>> consuming to do for pmwiki, although I have succeeded with much effort.
>>
>> On the other hand, I find it easy to create text files containing data
>> with Pmwiki markup that I can cut-and-paste into wiki pages and save,
>> leaving the hard part to Pmwiki. I wish there was a way to batch load
>> these marked-up text files so that Pmwiki would convert them for me
>> without the cut-and-paste.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brendan
>
>
> I've thought about doing something like this in ZAP.
>
> 1) create a import folder in your wiki and dump the text files into 
> there.
> 2) have a ZAP command that simply says import. It scans each file in
> the import folder, converts it to the right format, and then saves in
> the wiki.d folder. Delete the original page.  Easy enough to do.
>
> We would have to decide what to do about overwriting existing pages.
> And how to fix the page names (ie strips off the txt ending?). But
> nothing much by way of an obstacle
>
> I've also wanted to do an export command, which takes a CSV list of
> page names, reads the pages, extracts the page text, and saves to an
> export (or a "txt") folder as a simple txt file. Also very easy.
>
> I've even considered exporting fully rendered pages the same way to an
> "html" folder. If the links could be converted properly it might be a
> good way to create a functional "cache" of html pages ready for
> viewing.
>
> This is a bit more complex however, and there is already at least one
> recipe that does something similar.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>