Site Design Management Question

[frforums]

On our site, we have several pages that link to other pages within the site.

For example, "Shoppers that liked this, also liked this ___" links.

As stock moves in and out, we would like to be able to do a site search to find any active pages with links to pages that are currently inactive. That way we can remove the links to the inactive pages from the active pages.


So it would be nice to be able to do a search like, "Search the site and find all instances of: <a href="webpageinquestion.html">

Is there any application that does that?

[ayushsaran]

You can do site-wide searches in Dreamweaver for specific links
or just broken links / links to inactive pages.

This involves maintaining a local copy of your website for dreamweaver to search through

[frforums]

thanks for the reply.

are you suggesting we download all pages through DreamWeaver, which would then allow searches? hmmm...let's fire that up right now and see how it works.

(will post back findings)

[deathshadow]

If you're in windows, just dump all the files in a directory, choose search for just that directory, for filename type *.html (or *.php) and in the 'containing text' box type in your search - it'll work.

Though at that point I'd be seriously looking at throwing your content into a database like mySQL.

[frforums]

thanks for the reply - sorry it took so long to get back.

i am not sure i understand what you mean by "just dump all the files". could you clarify please?

[innovati]

What you need to do is get a Database. There are plenty of free databases out there, I recommend SQL, and lots of free online commerce content managing systems.

Check out the e-commerce section of opensourcecms.com and see what ones you'd like for yourself (they're all free).

Personally, I've heard good things about OpenCart, OSCommerce and ZenCart.

Best of luck!

[frforums]

What you need to do is get a Database. There are plenty of free databases out there, I recommend SQL, and lots of free online commerce content managing systems.

Check out the e-commerce section of opensourcecms.com and see what ones you'd like for yourself (they're all free).

Personally, I've heard good things about OpenCart, OSCommerce and ZenCart.

Best of luck!

thanks for the info.