On 01/18/2013 03:48 PM, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
I use this .htaccess file to rewrite every .html request to counter.py
#
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^/?(.+\.html) /cgi-bin/counter.py?htmlpage=$1 [L,PT,QSA]
#
=================================================================================================================
counter.py script is created for creating, storing, increasing, displaying a
counter for each webpage for every website i have.
It's supposed to identify each webpage by a <!-- Number --> and then do it's
database stuff from there
#
=================================================================================================================
# open current html template and get the page ID number
#
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f = open( '/home/nikos/public_html/' + page )
# read first line of the file
firstline = f.readline()
# find the ID of the file and store it
pin = re.match( r'<!-- (\d+) -->', firstline ).group(1)
#
=================================================================================================================
It works as expected and you can see it works normally by viewing:
http//superhost.gr (bottom down its the counter)
What is the problem you ask?!
Problem is that i have to insert at the very first line of every .html template
of mine, a unique string containing a number like:
index.html <!-- 1 -->
somefile.html <!-- 2-->
other.html <!-- 3 -->
nikos.html <!-- 4 -->
cool.html <!-- 5 -->
to HELP counter.py identify each webpage at a unique way.
Well.... its about 1000 .html files inside my DocumentRoot and i cannot edit
ALL of them of course!
Some of them created by Notepad++, some with the use of Dreamweaver and some
others with Joomla CMS
Even if i could embed a number to every html page, it would have been a very
tedious task, and what if a change was in order? Edit them ALL back again? Of
course not.
My question is HOW am i suppose to identify each and every html webpage i have,
without the need of editing and embedding a string containing a number for
them. In other words by not altering their contents.
or perhaps by modifying them a bit..... but in an automatic way....?
Thank you ALL in advance.
I don't understand the problem. A trivial Python script could scan
through all the files in the directory, checking which ones are missing
the identifier, and rewriting the file with the identifier added.
So, since you didn't come to that conclusion, there must be some other
reason you don't want to edit the files. Is it that the real sources
are elsewhere (e.g. Dreamweaver), and whenever one recompiles those
sources, these files get replaced (without identifiers)?
If that's the case, then I figure you have about 3 choices:
1) use the file path as your key, instead of requiring a number
2) use a hash of the page (eg. md5) as your key. of course this could
mean that you get a new value whenever the page is updated. That's good
in many situations, but you don't give enough information to know if
that's desirable for you or not.
3) Keep an external list of filenames, and their associated id numbers.
The database would be a good place to store such a list, in a separate
table.
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