Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Adding pages in bulk

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

I once tried to load the contents of the Jargon File into PhpWiki via a
Perl script, and had some success. (The JF is at
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/. You can get it as one big text file,
which is what I used).

I wrote a Perl script to do this, but it can be done in PHP without much
trouble. We don't have an "import" facility per se because there's never
been a demand for it, and there's an infinite number of input formats to
deal with ;-)

My approach would be to write a Perl script that read in each separate
entry from the file (by resetting $/) and then generating the SQL to
insert that entry. When the SQL looks good, I would try loading the files
into a virgin Wiki before loading it into the real thing.

~swain


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Malcolm Ryan wrote:

> I have a large collection of data in a text file that I would like to add
> to my PhpWiki. The file consists of several hundred entries, each of which
> should go into a separate page. Is there any easy way to write a
> script to add pages in bulk, rather than doing it manually?
>
> Malcolm
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