Hi I have a website that has 19,000 pages of html.I want to get the site redone with a cms and make a database .Is there a EASY way to do this or will somebody have to do all this data manually.
it really depends on how the data is coded into the page. I have done this before with the use of a custom built spider which deposited all the retrieved information into a zencart database. But it will really depend ALOT on if the information is formatted in the same way throughout the site
I agree with thenetninja. Its quite possible if you are familiar with a programming language and able to come up identifying the pattern of data in your pages.
if u have same design and the content differs means u can easily convert u site to 10 pages and put all the contents in a mysql database. that can be done
It can perhaps be only partly automated. You have to ask your self: How many different kinds of pages are there? Are the pages based on a template or individually hand-coded (unlikely)? In the new output how many kinds of pages will be there?
It will require you to put in lots of effort even if its automated you would have to look at each and every aspect of the site because if the site is hand coded then it is likely that by using automated process the database can take some words which might not be there in the original article and this will result in whole looks bad.