Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:20 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0500, David McGlone wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. The answer to this is not in PHP; it can be done in Firefox by itself. It's been a long time since I set this up, but if I'm not mistaken, the procedure goes like this: 1. In Firefox, enter about:config in the URL bar. (Ignore warnings.) 2. You are now in the raw configs. Search for a key called browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML. Set this to 2. This should cause Firefox to dump the contents of it places.sqlite file to a file called bookmarks.html when Firefox is closed. 3. Find another key called browser.startup.homepage. Set this to the absolute path of a file called bookmarks.html in your Firefox file tree. The path will be something like (in Linux): /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/random string.default/bookmarks.html. (Obviously, you'll have to locate this file ahead of time.) If this isn't the exact procedure, it's close. You can dig into the Firefox docs to get the exact values or keys if these aren't right. (For example, I don't know why the first key I mentioned is 2 instead of 1.) Anyway, I have my Firefox set up this way. Hi Paul. The drawback I have found so far with this setup is that the page will not update until firefox is restarted. do you have a workaround for this? -- Thanks, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:59:03AM -0500, David McGlone wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 22:20 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0500, David McGlone wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. The answer to this is not in PHP; it can be done in Firefox by itself. It's been a long time since I set this up, but if I'm not mistaken, the procedure goes like this: 1. In Firefox, enter about:config in the URL bar. (Ignore warnings.) 2. You are now in the raw configs. Search for a key called browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML. Set this to 2. This should cause Firefox to dump the contents of it places.sqlite file to a file called bookmarks.html when Firefox is closed. 3. Find another key called browser.startup.homepage. Set this to the absolute path of a file called bookmarks.html in your Firefox file tree. The path will be something like (in Linux): /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/random string.default/bookmarks.html. (Obviously, you'll have to locate this file ahead of time.) If this isn't the exact procedure, it's close. You can dig into the Firefox docs to get the exact values or keys if these aren't right. (For example, I don't know why the first key I mentioned is 2 instead of 1.) Anyway, I have my Firefox set up this way. Hi Paul. The drawback I have found so far with this setup is that the page will not update until firefox is restarted. do you have a workaround for this? Yeah, that's the rub. When I found the instructions for doing this, they were clear that Firefox wouldn't update the file until the browser was closed. Outside of that, you'd just have to read the actual SQLite file, I suppose. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. -- Thanks, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
You can export the bookmarks as a json or html and then read it easily with php but i suspect you want to read the firefox files directly, in which case you can read the sqlite file called places.sqlite More info here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Sent from my iPhone 5 Beta [Confidential use only] On 28 nov. 2011, at 00:47, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. -- Thanks, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 01:15 +0100, Camilo Sperberg wrote: You can export the bookmarks as a json or html and then read it easily with php but i suspect you want to read the firefox files directly, in which case you can read the sqlite file called places.sqlite More info here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Sent from my iPhone 5 Beta [Confidential use only] On 28 nov. 2011, at 00:47, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. I realized I wasn't very clear with the post after I sent it. I apologize. But you are correct, I was wondering if there was an easy way to just use readfile to read the bookmarks file, but I looks like I'll be having to get the info from the sqllite db instead. (At least that's what I'm thinking at the moment now that I know what file the bookmarks are stored in) -- Thanks, David M. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
It seems to me that the file structure should be in the source code somewhere and you can download that. --C On 11/27/2011 7:28 PM, David McGlone wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 01:15 +0100, Camilo Sperberg wrote: You can export the bookmarks as a json or html and then read it easily with php but i suspect you want to read the firefox files directly, in which case you can read the sqlite file called places.sqlite More info here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Sent from my iPhone 5 Beta [Confidential use only] On 28 nov. 2011, at 00:47, David McGloneda...@dmcentral.net wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. I realized I wasn't very clear with the post after I sent it. I apologize. But you are correct, I was wondering if there was an easy way to just use readfile to read the bookmarks file, but I looks like I'll be having to get the info from the sqllite db instead. (At least that's what I'm thinking at the moment now that I know what file the bookmarks are stored in) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Finding and reading firefox bookmarks with PHP
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:47:36PM -0500, David McGlone wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if it's possible to find the bookmarks file in firefox and output the contents on a page with PHP.. I'm wanting to do this so I can use it as my home page. The answer to this is not in PHP; it can be done in Firefox by itself. It's been a long time since I set this up, but if I'm not mistaken, the procedure goes like this: 1. In Firefox, enter about:config in the URL bar. (Ignore warnings.) 2. You are now in the raw configs. Search for a key called browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML. Set this to 2. This should cause Firefox to dump the contents of it places.sqlite file to a file called bookmarks.html when Firefox is closed. 3. Find another key called browser.startup.homepage. Set this to the absolute path of a file called bookmarks.html in your Firefox file tree. The path will be something like (in Linux): /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/random string.default/bookmarks.html. (Obviously, you'll have to locate this file ahead of time.) If this isn't the exact procedure, it's close. You can dig into the Firefox docs to get the exact values or keys if these aren't right. (For example, I don't know why the first key I mentioned is 2 instead of 1.) Anyway, I have my Firefox set up this way. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
