Small correction below.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 21:24, Allister Jenks <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmmmm. More questions
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 20:53, Allister Jenks <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hey, the heater has warmed the room and my brain is getting some of this.
>> I essentially have the basic design working now and can see where some of
>> the tweaks need to be made. (Not to mention the whole skin design and a site
>> structure outside the items & categories!!)
>>
>> One, perhaps unintended consequence of doing the categories this way is
>> that I can probably use a regex text editor on my old source to get all the
>> categories set quick smart.  :-)
>>
>> Next questions before I go too far on the data entry front.
>>
>> 1) I need to do some number crunching for each item when displayed. I have
>> a PHP function I tweaked for PmWiki. What's the best way to integrate that?
>> Basically I have two metric measurements stored on each item and I need to
>> output in inches and 1/2s, 1/4s or 1/8s. The PHP function converts one
>> measurement from mm to in.
>>
>> 2) Re getting the data across, I have around 200 items which I can munge
>> in a text editor, but as I see it I have to create 200 separate pages. Is
>> there a way to script that somehow? It'd be a one-off exercise. My main
>> concern is ensuring no details change between old and new sites.
>
>
> 3) I don't believe I need the title for the item pages, as the item names
> are all codes of the form RBxxx-yy where xxx and yy are numerics. How can I
> output the page name forced to upper case? The current category page lists
> the items as links using the title template [[{+p}|+]].  Essentially what I
> want is toupper({page}) as it shouldn't be a link - I'm going to add all
> the detail in the listing.
>
> --
> Allister
>



-- 
Allister

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