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Uniquely identifying each & every html template

by Nik (Initiate)
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Re: Uniquely identifying each & every html template
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 21, 2013 at 13:38 UTC
    My question is HOW am i suppose to identify each and every html webpage i have, without the need of editing and embedding a string containing a number for them.

    The full pathname of each file is already a unique identifier, why do you need a number also?

    Converting the unique name to a unique number can be done in any number of ways:

    • Put a list of all the paths into a file and then number them;
    • On *nix, the node id should be unique;
    • md5 the path;
    • crc64 the path;
    • A custom hashing function:
      sub id{ my $n = 0; $n = ( $n << 1 ^ $_ ) for unpack 'Q(X7Q)*', $_[0]; +$n };; print id( $_ ), ' : ', $_ for qw[ /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfolder/index2.html /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfoldre/index2.html /homa/nikos/public_html/folder/subfolder/index2.html /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfoldre/index.html /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfolder/index.html ];; 14395874431259872676 : /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfolder/inde +x2.html 18362554206005274164 : /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfoldre/inde +x2.html 14252040718160727460 : /homa/nikos/public_html/folder/subfolder/inde +x2.html 534634562378736008 : /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfoldre/index. +html 2010048469067125824 : /home/nikos/public_html/folder/subfolder/index +.html

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      Why there is a need to Convert the unique filename to a unique number? How is this gonna help?
      The hash is a mathematical algorithm of producing a string based on a contents file BUT in my case i stated that:

      the .html file can be:

      1. renamed
      2. moved
      3. contents altered (hash is based on files contents, so that will fail)

      We need some other attribute to identify a file because relying on the above attributes will only produce DOUBLE counters for the modifies file.
        Why there is a need to Convert the unique filename to a unique number? How is this gonna help?

        Why are you asking me the same question as I asked you?

        The hash is a mathematical algorithm of producing a string based on a contents file

        I showed the hash operating on the file path, not its content.

        the .html file can be: 1. renamed 2. moved 3. contents altered

        Thus, you want to be able to consider two files with different names, different locations and different contents as "the same file".

        Without you arranging to place some piece of information within those files that can be searched for, to uniquely identify them; those criteria mean that any two files could be considered the same, which is a nonsense; which is why I ignored the possibility that you actually meant that; and assumed your description was lacking precision.

        However, inserting a piece of information -- say a custom html-like tag or html comment -- into each html file -- regardless of whether the are 100's 1000's or 100s of 1000s would be the works of a few minutes. At least it would be for Perl.


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        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
Re: Uniquely identifying each & every html template
by Arunbear (Prior) on Jan 21, 2013 at 13:33 UTC
    Maybe ... create a database table containing the name of each file along with an auto increment primary key id, and use that id in each file to identify it. Updating the files to add these id's could be done with a script of course.

    If you rename a file, you'd have to update this table as well, but the id will be the same.

Re: Uniquely identifying each & every html template
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 21, 2013 at 13:17 UTC
    Not perl, not a perl question, not a python question. not a Mod_rewrite forum ask elsewhere.
      This is a "specification" problem that i need your ideas for to find a working solution.

      I then can be implemented in Perl or Python. BUT for the time being this is on theoretical level only. Please help.

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