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caydel
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Ok, let me rephrase:
I want to create a page template that reads in content from an external HTML file… ok, I can do that.
Is there any way I can set it so that any links contained within the read in HTML file will also open in the same page template?
ie, so I have a page template which reads in the index.php. I want to be able to click on a link to go to the previous month, and have that as well open within the page template… is this making any better sense?
Bumping every 15 minutes is not productive. On the contrary… In this way you just successfully removed your post from the “no reply” topics queue where every helper starts when coming online.
Patience is very much valued around here!
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caydel
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Moshu – it was not meant as an intentional bump – rather, I saw a few things about templates, and decided to rephrase my question in light of what I had just learned.
Say… are you able to configure your web site so that directory browsing is ENabled on that directory with the logs in it?
so, you could, arguably, include a link to the directory as part of your blog’s page navigation?
(search here for the plugin “redirectify” to see where I’m headed)
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caydel
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ok, but I am not looking to redirect to an external page. I want to import this constantly changing dynamic directory so that they act exactly like part of wordpress.
I can easily do what I need for the index.html file by using a custom page template and <?php include(‘irclogs/index.html’)?> or whatever in place of the blog post.
The problem lies in that a new file for this is created daily. Perhaps even more often. And I can’t create a new page template with an include for every generated HTML dump.
This doesn’t even get into the fact that I would be forced then to create a new page for every page template/html dump…
Ideally, what I want to do is create a single page template which will pull in the index.html file. What I can’t figure out is where to go from there. I need it to work so that every link I click on in the index.html file opens the next file, again included into a WordPress page template again.
This way, I don’t have to worry about updating these etc. across thousands of manual pages every time I make a minor update…
Hmm. So, basically you want the hundreds of html files to act as a “database” so that they would be pulled into a WP Page template…
Well, the page template creation seems to be something you’ve actually already done.
So I’m wondering if there’s some way to use a cron job for part of the rest of it?
And really, I don’t have any idea – just that it seems as if a cron job could dump stuff out to file for you, and perhaps then a “grab” in php (heh…. I’m not a programmer!) would pull that output into your page template. Which you would of course style using css….
Just thinking….
Thread Starter
caydel
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moshu – for now. The software I am using dumps them to these files.
Ideally, I want something that will create a IRCLogs->Year->Month->Day structure by automatically creating a new page in the database, and directly adding the information…
Algorithm something like
begin:
If page.thisyear does not exist
create page.thisyear
if page.thismonth does not exist
create page.thismonth
If page.today does not exist
create page.today
while (notEnding){
page.today.append(latestmessage)
}
I have a library to connect to and monitor the chatroom. So, I want to write a program which will use this library, and dump each line directly onto the end of the page for the day, and creating the heirarchy of pages as it needs to…
I guess I will need to start looking into how to create pages via database manipulation…
Does WP have an API?
