Hi, I've been lurking here for a while and I've learned a great deal about website bakery, used it on some websites too.
Recently I've got to restyle an existing website that has over 1000 of well formatted content. My question is, is there anyone who has tried importing this directly into the database? My plan is to create such a module if there isn't one available. The prospect to manually import 1000+ pages is daunting to say the least
The workflow would be something like this:
- Strip the html files down to just the content part, all menu and design stuff has to be removed. In my case I could use textpad and use regular expressions and strip all files.
- I'll upload all the html pages to a separate folder
- I point the to be created module to this folder and it begins reading the first file
- It first extracts the title to use as page title for menu.
- A page is created and named
- The WYSIWYG section is filled with the content
- Repeat until all files are done
- Report successful/unsuccessful pages, maybe move succesful pages to a different folder.
- I'll have to drag and drop the pages into the right order and apply parent etc to create a proper structure. Or is there an easier way to apply this? I have access to phpmyadmin, so I'd be able to do it directly into the database. It would be great if each page in the pages overview had a check box with a couple of buttons and drop down lists to apply a couple of pages with the same parent for example.
- I can then adjust the css to format the imported pages.
I think I can slap something together using the source of the 'multipage' module and maybe the 'Export and import of single pages' module.
What do you guys think?
Thanks for looking!
