[FM Discuss] need some php help

[Michael McAndrew]

yeah - have asked civi team if they can lend a hand too.  will get on with
this from friday evening onwards ...

On 17 February 2011 11:17, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> ah good!  you already know the syntax then since we did this with civi
>
>
> adam
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:14 +0000, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> > i can help with this :)
> >
> > On 17 February 2011 11:08, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> >         hi,
> >
> >         I want to start the new fm site next week but i have so much
> >         on i dont
> >         have enough time to prepare everything for it. the need is
> >         getting
> >         pressing.
> >
> >         One of the issues is that I want to redirect urls so that the
> >         old links
> >         to chapters in current manuals still work. if we dont do this
> >         then all
> >         links that are out there in the www will turn up 404 since the
> >         chapter
> >         urls will be different.
> >
> >         I need everyone that needs a old chapter url mapped onto a new
> >         url to be
> >         able to visit a form online and  enter the old url into a
> >         textfield ,
> >         then the corresponding new url into another textfield. then
> >         press
> >         'submit'. at the end of each day or ondemand depending on how
> >         much time
> >         i have, i will remap it all manually in the htaccess files. if
> >         i can
> >         simply copy and paste an already formatted redirect command
> >         that would
> >         make it fast...
> >
> >         is there anyone out there that can make a very simple php
> >         script to
> >         help? it needs to do this:
> >
> >         have two fields:
> >         old url:
> >         new url:
> >
> >         [submit]
> >
> >         -----
> >         the php file then takes the last two parts of each path:
> >         oldurl = [manualname]/[oldchapter]
> >
> >         and
> >
> >         newurl = [manualname]/[newchapter]
> >
> >
> >         then does the following :
> >         writes a text file with the right redirect command (I can send
> >         anyone
> >         that wants this the syntax off list).
> >
> >         *and* writes the request onto the form at the bottom so people
> >         can see
> >         which urls have already been requested to redirect
> >
> >
> >         anyone ok to help me with this?
> >
> >         adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         --
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> >
> >
> >
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