-----Original Message----- From: openguides-dev-bounces@openguides.org [mailto:openguides-dev-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Bob Walker Sent: 25 November 2005 17:51 To: openguides-dev@openguides.org Subject: [OGDev] extension to mirror.pl

Whilst out shopping today my mind started thinking about things. While its great that we can now mirror an entire guide it would be great if we could mirror only bits of it. For example mirror only pages about croydon and set up croydon.openguides.org. then fiddle with the templates so thats edits (and possibly new pages) get sent back to the main guide (london.openguides.org). Admittledy this new guide would then have to create soem of the pages itself for instance the category_pubs page would need to say different things to the original so in fact you might need to have two edit functions. im sure it oculd work or soemthing.

So the extension would be to tell mirror.pl that you want to mirror only certainy categories or locales and disregard anything else.

That should be easy enough to code. og_mirror is a fairly small script, and you are welcome to produce a custom version of it. Add filtering logic into sub populate_local_wiki. You probably want to test @{$metadata->{locale}} to see if any entries in the array contain 'Croydon'.

Shame i cant code :)

No time like the present to start :).

You can always get some help. Buy a copy of the Llama (Learning Perl by Randall Schwarz) and post your questions to #perl-help on irc.perl.org or http://perlmonks.org

If this is a common requirement from others hosting guides, I'll look at enhancing og_mirror to provide select options.

Anyway, I'm looking to write a "pull" function to grab individual pages from another guide.

Hope this helps,

Ivor.