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Inserting same line of text of every web page - "link" insert? 1

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pendle666

pendle666

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Hello

I've a copyright sentence which goes at the bottom of every web page - unfortunately there are over 5000 of these pages (all transcripts of old documents).

Is there a HTML tag which might "import" this line? They are static HTML pages, but I would like to update one file with the updated year and wording rather than doing it on all the pages manually.

I don't see anything, but I think I might not be searching correctly.



thank you for helping

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Pendle
 
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Hi

5000 static HTML files is quite bad idea. Even if your web server is serving static files, those should be generated based on some template(s) so you can re-generate them whenever needed.

There would be a couple of ways :
[ul]
[li]JavaScript with or without AJAX : needs a script block or scrip file included in each HTML file, the inserted note will not be part of the page content[/li]
[li]iframe : needs an [tt]iframe[/tt] tag in each HTML file, the inserted note will not be part of the page content[/li]
[li]SSI : needs a special tag in each HTML file, needs server configuration, the inserted copyright note will be part of the page content[/li]
[li]static generator : needs a special tag in each HTML file, the inserted copyright note will be part of the page content[/li]
[/ul]

Personally I would prefer to use a static generator. Of course, given the amount of files probably not a readily available one, but a custom made. If the HTML files already contain the copyright note, then would use [tt]sed[/tt] or some other text processing tool to transform it into something templateish ( like "{{copyright}}" or "Copyright &copy; {{year}} {{owner}}" ) that can be easily replaced later with the actual content. If not contains the copyright note yet, would look for a suitable spot for it ( for example right before the closing [tt]</body>[/tt] tag ) and insert the mentioned templateish thing.

Of course, we could suggest more suitable solution if we could see one such HTML file.


Feherke.
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Hello

Thank you for replying. These files I inherited when the person who used to run the website had to give up and I offered to help (!)

Here is the text of one of the files


[pre]
<?php include("/home/iomfhsi/public_html/IOMFHS/password_protect.php"); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<html xmlns="<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>The Isle of Man Family History Society</title>
<link href="../../../p7spepper/wills.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="p7pmm/p7PMMv15.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="p7pmm/p7PMMscripts.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<div id="masthead">
<img name="masthead" src="../../../p7spepper/img/masthead.jpg" width="900" height="145" border="0" id="masthead" alt="Masthead Image" />
</div>
<div id="contentwrapper">
<div class="maincolumn">
<div class="maincontent">

<h2>Transcript of Will of<br /></h2>
<h1>Christian Comish als Cubon, 1677 </h1>

<hr class="trans">


<pre>
blah blah blah transcription text
blah blah blah transcription text
blah blah blah transcription text

</pre>
<hr class="trans">
<p>
Submitted by: Name of transcriber<br />
Date: 23 April 2007 <br />
Original: LDS: 0991643 <br />
</p>

</div>
</div>
<div class="sidebarwrapper">
<div class="sidebarbox">
<div id="p7PMM_1" class="p7PMMv15">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearfloat">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<div class="footercolumn1">
<p>&copy; 2015 The Isle of Man Family History Society<br />Registered Charity No: 680 ISSN No: 1351-556X</p>
</div>
<div class="footercolumn2">
<p align="right"><a href=" </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
[/pre]


thank you for helping

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Pendle
 
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Hi

Ah, so they are not static HTML. And the copyright note is already there. Then I would run a command like this :
Code: 
sed -i 's/&copy; 2015/\&copy; <?=date("Y")?>/' /path/to/file/*
This will replace the currently hardcoded "2015" with PHP code that always inserts the current year.

Note that the [tt]-i[/tt] option means in-place, so the files specified as parameters will be modified. Make sure you create backup copies of those 5000++ files before using that command.

Also note that if your files are organized in multiple directories, you have to take care in running the above command for each.


Feherke.
feherke.github.io
 
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Thank you, I'll give that a go.

thank you for helping

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Pendle
 
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To extend feherke's sed solution

you could use find and sed combined as a one line shell command


Code: 
find . -type f -iname "*.php" -exec sed -i 's/&copy; 2015/\&copy; <?=date("Y")?>/' {} +





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