[FM Discuss] getting iframe suitable pages from FLOSS Manuals

Mick - Floss Manuals mick at flossmanuals.net
Fri Dec 7 01:03:44 PST 2012


On 07/12/12 08:43, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> I got as far as getting it to embed the text of the HTML code of the
> manual chapters without rendering it. I dont know if it makes sense to
> spend more time on this since Finnish site uses a fork of an older
> Bookipublisher and then you cant use it on the English site even if it
> works on the Finnish one. This version of Bookipublisher stores manual
> chapters as txt files and parses them with PHP, so there are no HTML
> files you could just put inside an iframe.

It seems to me that vanilla html files of each chapter to create an
iframe embed would be more flexible. And that your approach to use curl
to scrape the div could be a good short term solution.

nice one
Mick



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