Le Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:34:51 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:16:52PM +0200, Michel wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wish to import in PmWiki over than 3,500 text files created by another >> tool. > > Then you probably want to use the ImportText recipe: > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ImportText > > This recipe makes it easy to import files, while automatically > keeping the .pageindex and targets= lines up-to-date. It > also handles any problems arising from hitting PHP's > "maximum execution time" limits.
I had a quick look at this page before, but knowing the page format and due to the fact that I had to create a script to convert existing file, I choosed the do-it-myself way, just for the fun (common mistake among programmers). I came back to ImportText. I agree that this is the way to go. Thanks for the job. >> I have set up a script translating the pages to the Pmwiki format >> according to the specs : >> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PageFileFormat > > We should probably add a link to the PmWiki.PageFileFormat page that > points people to the Cookbook:ImportText option. It's probably also a > good idea to put this as a FAQ in the PmWiki.FAQ page. (I'd do it now > but I'm on a job site this week and can't easily get to it until the > weekend.) Perhaps you can add some warning explaining why ImportText is preferable. Here are the arguments from that I have just learned. Please use/correct as needed. - direct import create incoherence between pages and internal indexes, and does not manage categories or trail ; - if you really want to direct import files without Category/trail, you need to delete .pageindex. The file will be rebuilt when needed. Caution : depending of the number of pages, rebuilding can be aborted due to PHP time-out. - if you really want to direct import files with Category/trail, you need to insert a 'targets=' field to you pages before importing. You can avoid all these problems in using Importtext :-) Thanks a lot Michel _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
