Is there a way to rename page.php and still have all the links working?

Is it defined as a variable somewhere or hardcoded all over the place?



James.

Unfortunatly it is hard codes in the script. It would need to be editedin every file manually....

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Crap!

Oh well, thanks for the help anyway.

James.

Adrian has said he's got that change made for the next release, so it should be possible to rename it to index.php or whatever.

Me, I just opened up every file and did a global find and replace for page.php...

Dan

I've replaced all instances of page.php.

The home page and catagories aren't working, everything else is fine.

Did you have to compile anything when you were done?

Any other tips?

James.

What files did you replace? page.php, all the files in /admin/Links/PHP/ ???

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I believe there are also a number of references to page.php in the templates.

Dan

Go to your admin dir and type

grep -r 'page.php' *

and you'll see a (longish) list of all the places (templates and modules), where page.php appears.

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Now all we need is a 'grep' replace function

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You just need to know how to do it

Go to FileMan and you can use the Search feature, and then if you are brave, the Replace one too. =)

Cheers,

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For the brave in unix:


execute the global search and replace on all that match the patter.

Now thats what I was looking for :)

The closest I found was a Jagerman post but that didn't do a replace.

I personally recommend against the above suggestions, despite coming from G-T staff, as they encourage not keeping a local backup copy of all files. Furthermore, the find and replace is beyond trivial with any competent text editor, so why complicate things?

Dan

The replace in FileMan has a "Create .bak file" option. =) Also, you can change Aki's to:

perl -p -i.bak -e 's,match,replacement,g' `grep -l -r matchpattern *`

to keep a backup file.

Edit: I missed the word local. =) At least you still do have a backup though.

Cheers,

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It's good that it has that option, but as your edit pointed out, my concern is over a local copy, not a backup on the server. The reason being, if something happens to your server installation, you may lose all such file versions, backup or otherwise. Online editors are convenient, but I think they encourage a false sense of security (of course, how often are files lost on the server).

Dan

If you send me an email, I'll package up the newest version of the PHP front end as well as the updated templates and email them to you.

Adrian

I've replaced page.php with index.php in all the templates, admin files etc.

I'm still getting the following error on the homepage and category pages:

"Oops, we had the following problem:
We don't seem to have a category by the name 'index\.php'."

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

My find and replace include everything under the admin directory and of course the file index.php.



James.

You don't get the error on the non-home/category pages (i.e. New, Cool, Search, etc.)?

Dan

Yes, all other pages are fine.

Including new, cool, search, details etc.

It's only the homepage and category pages that show the error.



James.

I don't know why it would be just those two pages, but I'd recommend doing a search through your files and see if a index\.php (note the backslash) accidentally slipped in there somewhere.

Dan

Already did that, no luck.

I was getting that error when I first renamed page.php to index.php and hadn't touch any other files,

so it's not something I've type in somewhere.



James.

That doesn't make any sense... How would you have gotten errors saying index.php doesn't exist before you had even changed any references to page.php to make it know to look for index.php???

Dan

The first thing I tried was just renaming the file page.php to index.php. When I browsed directly to this file I got the same error I'm getting now. This was before I had changed any templates or scripts. Now I have changed all references to page.php that I can find, but I am still getting the same error on the homepage and category pages. The error isn't saying index.php doesn't exist it's saying the category doesn't exist.

James.

That would imply something else (presumably unrelated) is causing the error, but I can't think what it would be... Do you have a category named index.php or anything similarly unusual?

Maybe Adrian knows of some funny PHP configuration setting that would cause page.php to detect its file name and get confused when changed? It's a long shot, to be sure... :)

Dan