[pmwiki-users] Questions about PTV and PTV mass edit

[Gregor Klarič]

When I did similar in the past, I downloaded the source of all pages, did
the replacements locally using a script or search and replace on many
files(Notepad++) and then Imported the pages back using the Import Text
recipe.

ABClf <languefrancaise at gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 4. Juli 2024, 00:40:

> I understand your answer, thank you.
> Here are more informations, to complete my question, in case someone has
> advice.
>
> At first stage, what I am planning to do are very basic and tiny
> replacements ;
> for example, I would like to able to replace things such as :
>
> édition :
> with
> edition :
>
> I guess I have around 20 terms to get replaced, affecting a few
> thousands of pages.
>
> For such a basic task (one word replacement, no multiline, no link
> affected), I would believe unix tools to be effective – as long as you
> know how to use them safely ;) – rather than playing with PmWiki API
> (first : far out of my knowledge ; second : I may have a lot of pages
> to process and it looks like overkill to edit/save hundreds or
> thousands pages for a one (or 10) word replacement).
>
> Also, for such a cosmetic/minor/negligible task, I don't mind about
> the diff ; I do restore pages sometimes, but not often, and I should
> be able to check the restored copy twice.
>
> I understand it is much better to preserve timestamp replacement
> (sure, I don't want to touch the unix time= data and indeed I do use
> fastcache recipe).
>
> At least, it is true that PmWiki file text format is somewhat tricky
> (to me, it is one of the very few things I regret with PmWiki) but the
> planned task would have very minimal impact and is expected to be
> quite easy.
>
> I didn't dare to use Anomen's XMLPageStore for my main site (if
> something bad happens will I be able to fix it ? if there is no more
> support in case of PHP incompatibility ?) but I do use it for a
> private and less important part with success. Wiki.d files created
> with that script are a lot cleaner.  No idea about the security
> issues.
>
> As for .pageindex creation, it takes long but it worked last time it
> ran ; nevertheless I'm not sure the server does like the experiment
> too much ; and because it is quite a big and long task in my case, I'm
> limited to regen .pageindex only if needed.
>
> Thank you,
> Gilles.
>
>
> Le mer. 3 juil. 2024 à 22:03, Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr> a écrit :
> >
> > On 03/07/2024 21:48, Petko Yotov wrote:
> > > PTVs are normally not indexed in .pageindex, only the page names, last
> > > modified times, and the list of words for searches.
> >
> > Also the link targets from the page to other pages or to categories are
> > stored in .pageindex.
> >
> > Petko
>
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