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From: Νίκος on 7 Aug 2010 20:20
Hello dear Pythoneers,

I have over 500 .php web pages in various subfolders under 'data'
folder that i have to rename to .html and and ditch the '<?' and '?>'
tages from within and also insert a very first line of <!-- id -->
where id must be an identification unique number of every page for
counter tracking purposes. ONly pure html code must be left.

I before find otu Python used php and now iam switching to templates +
python solution so i ahve to change each and every page.

I don't know how to handle such a big data replacing problem and
cannot play with fire because those 500 pages are my cleints pages and
data of those filesjust cannot be messes up.

Can you provide to me a script please that is able of performing an
automatic way of such a page content replacing?

Thanks a million!
From: rantingrick on 7 Aug 2010 20:40
On Aug 7, 7:20 pm, Íßêïò <nikos.the.gr...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello dear Pythoneers,

I prefer Pythonista, but anywho..

> I have over 500 .php web pages in various subfolders under 'data'
> folder that i have to rename to .html

import os
os.rename(old, new)

> and and ditch the '<?' and '?>' tages from within

path = 'some/valid/path'
f = open(path, 'r')
data = f.read()
f.close()
data.replace('<?', '')
data.replace('?>', '')

> and also insert a very first line of <!-- id -->
> where id must be an identification unique number of every page for
> counter tracking purposes.

comment = "<!-- %s -->"%(idnum)
data.insert(idx, comment)

> ONly pure html code must be left.

Well then don't F up! However judging from the amount of typos in this
post i would suggest you do some major testing!

> I don't know how to handle such a big data replacing problem and
> cannot play with fire because those 500 pages are my cleints pages and
> data of those files just cannot be messes up.

Better do some serous testing first, or (if you have enough disc
space ) create copies instead!

> Can you provide to me a script please that is able of performing an
> automatic way of such a page content replacing?

This is very basic stuff and the fine manual is free you know. But how
much are you willing to pay?
From: John S on 7 Aug 2010 22:42
On Aug 7, 8:20 pm, Íßêïò <nikos.the.gr...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello dear Pythoneers,
>
> I have over 500 .php web pages in various subfolders under 'data'
> folder that i have to rename to .html and and ditch the '<?' and '?>'
> tages from within and also insert a very first line of <!-- id -->
> where id must be an identification unique number of every page for
> counter tracking purposes. ONly pure html code must be left.
>
> I before find otu Python used php and now iam switching to templates +
> python solution so i ahve to change each and every page.
>
> I don't know how to handle such a big data replacing problem and
> cannot play with fire because those 500 pages are my cleints pages and
> data of those filesjust cannot be messes up.
>
> Can you provide to me a script please that is able of performing an
> automatic way of such a page content replacing?
>
> Thanks a million!

If the 500 web pages are PHP only in the sense that there is only one
pair of <? ?> tags in each file, surrounding the entire content, then
what you ask for is doable.

from os.path import join
import os

id = 1 # id number
for currdir,files,dirs in os.walk('data'):
for f in files:
if f.endswith('php'):
source_file_name = join(currdir,f) # get abs path to
filename
source_file = open(source_file_name)
source_contents = source_file.read() # read contents of
PHP file
source_file.close()

# replace tags
source_contents = source_contents.replace('<%','')
source_contents = source_contents.replace('%>','')

# add ID
source_contents = ( '<!-- %d -->' % id ) + source_contents
id += 1

# create new file with .html extension
source_file_name =
source_file_name.replace('.php','.html')
dest_file = open(source_file_name,'w')
dest_file.write(source_contents) # write contents
dest_file.close()

Note: error checking left out for clarity.

On the other hand, if your 500 web pages contain embedded PHP
variables or logic, you have a big job ahead. Django templates and PHP
are two different languages for embedding data and logic in web pages.
Converting a project from PHP to Django involves more than renaming
the template files and deleting "<?" and friends.

For example, here is a snippet of PHP which checks which browser is
viewing the page:

<?php
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== FALSE) {
echo 'You are using Internet Explorer.<br />';
}
?>

In Django, you would typically put this logic in a Django *view*
(which btw is not what is called a 'view' in MVC term), which is the
code that prepares data for the template. The logic would not live
with the HTML. The template uses "template variables" that the view
has associated with a Python variable or function. You might create a
template variable (created via a Context object) named 'browser' that
contains a value that identifies the browser.

Thus, your Python template (HTML file) might look like this:

{% if browser == 'IE' %}You are using Internet Explorer{% endif %}

PHP tends to combine the presentation with the business logic, or in
MVC terms, combines the view with the controller. Django separates
them out, which many people find to be a better way. The person who
writes the HTML doesn't have to speak Python, but only know the names
of template variables and a little bit of template logic. In PHP, the
HTML code and all the business logic lives in the same files. Even
here, it would probably make sense to calculate the browser ID in the
header of the HTML file, then access it via a variable in the body.

If you have 500 static web pages that are part of the same
application, but that do not contain any logic, your application might
need to be redesigned.

Also, you are doing your changes on a COPY of the application on a non-
public server, aren't you? If not, then you really are playing with
fire.


HTH,
John
From: John S on 7 Aug 2010 22:56
Even though I just replied above, in reading over the OP's message, I
think the OP might be asking:

"How can I use RE string replacement to find PHP tags and convert them
to Django template tags?"

Instead of saying

source_contents = source_contents.replace(...)

say this instead:

import re


def replace_php_tags(m):
''' PHP tag replacer
This function is called for each PHP tag. It gets a Match object as
its parameter, so you can get the contents of the old tag, and
should
return the new (Django) tag.
'''

# m is the match object from the current match
php_guts = m.group(1) # the contents of the PHP tag

# now put the replacement logic here

# and return whatever should go in place of the PHP tag,
# which could be '{{ python_template_var }}'
# or '{% template logic ... %}
# or some combination

source_contents = re.sub('<?\s*(.*?)\s*?
>',replace_php_tags,source_contents)






From: Νίκος on 7 Aug 2010 23:11
On 8 Áýã, 05:42, John S <jstrick...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If the 500 web pages are PHP only in the sense that there is only one
> pair of <? ?> tags in each file, surrounding the entire content, then
> what you ask for is doable.

First of all, thank you very much John for your BIG effort to help
me(i'm still readign your posts)!

I have to tell you here that those php files contain several instances
of php opening and closing tags(like 3 each php file). The rest is
pure html data. That happened because those files were in the
beginning html only files that later needed conversion to php due to
some dynamic code that had to be used to address some issues.

Please tell me that the code you provided can be adjusted to several
instances as well!
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