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Dirk Bensel
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Wednesday 26 May 2004 3:20:27 am
Hi everbody, i'd like to import a XML-page like this one from another webserver.
<myentry id="139847">
<mydatum>25.05.2004</mydatum>
<mytitel>TITEL</mytitel>
<myimage>link to an image</myimage>
<mydachzeile>INTRO</mydachzeile>
<mytext>BODY</mytext>
</myentry>
every container includes text and html-tags.
First, i tried to handle this like a RSS-Feed, but it failed ... because it isnt rss. (try and fail :-) )
Are any functions available?
Any hints?
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ROCK ON
Dirk
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James Packham
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Wednesday 26 May 2004 6:29:53 am
I'm not recommending this approach, but you <i>could</i> write a php script to be run from a cronjob. It could use expat to parse the xml and insert it directly into the ezpublish database. This is probably quite a timeconsuming process and you'd need to review and test it everytime you wanted to upgrade EZ. Also you get problems like how to check this stuff before it gets published - insert into an approval workflow? But it's one idea :) Regards, James
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Radoslaw Walec
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Tuesday 01 June 2004 6:12:56 am
Hi, I'm new here (and with eZpublish).
eZpublish is good, nice, I use it for intranet site. As far as good.
Now, I'v got similar problem. I'v got data in external database and I need to put it into eZpublish system. I'd like to feed up with those data one of nodes in my site. I tried to use RSS but I'v got more (than RSS) fields to import.
My database has simple structure: id, name, something1, something2, etc.
I just want to show it in list view and to be able to search it.
The problem is my database has got about 50000 records :).
I can extract data from my database and convert it to xml page.
I can even make a class (with proper template) inside eZpublish and join it with proper node. But don't expect I'll write entire 50000 records with my fingers into eZpublish :)
And more, I need to do such process once a week. My data are processed in completly different "realy commercial :/" system which I can not change for another one.
So I don't have to check content before I publish it.
Would you say that the best way for solving the problem was a functionality similar to RSS feeder but more versatile?
But I don't have one :(.
So, anyway maybe there is a possibility to write quite fast such functionality based on RSS? In other words: should I rewrite RSS, or build a new module, or just create a simple php script for such functionality? I noticed that SINGLE publishing of object (such as article, file etc.) made over 20 new records in 10 tables (mysql), so it wont be just "simple" php script :(
Any hints????
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