On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:26 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel that via php one could tell the server to trash all those files > marked as "delete"...
It's certainly possible. There are existing recipes which do this for *attachments* but I failed to find any that work with the deleted pages. (Deleted pages are simply marked with a timestamp-comma-del such as 123434561234,del as a suffix to the filename in wiki.d.) So "all" it requires is a recipe to be written. However, the fact that most administrators simply go in and use FTP or command line to do it means it hasn't been a high enough priority in the past and may not become a high enough priority... Another possibility would be to install some sort of PHP file manager -- you can google for the following: "file manager" OR explorer php and you will see quite a few that can be installed. This would be an alternative to FTP. Note that these programs sometimes come with built-in security problems -- I installed one once and found I could wander through all (!) files on the host, going well out of "my" area... So beware and probably uninstall it or render it inactive after you have used it for the specific use you need it for... Another alternative would be to go back to old-school command-line FTP. Some of them support the mdelete command which may or may not support wildcards. If you find one that supports wildcards then a simple ftp session to delete all previously deleted pages (danger!) might look like this: ftp> open www.example.com username: foo password: ftp> cd pmwiki/wiki.d ftp> mdelete *,del confirm? y ftp> quit Obviously something like this should not be done without due care -- I'm typing this in without having played with this in quite some time so I could be totally off and could be including major mistakes with far-reaching consequences. If so, I'll happily refund the total cost of the advice... :-) -Peter _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
