On 5/24/06, Martin Alterisio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2006/5/23, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> my 2cents ....
>
> Martin Alterisio wrote:
> > 2006/5/23, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >>
> >> On 5/23/06, Martin Alterisio < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > If that's the case, why don't you just use the "export as web page"
or
> >> "save
> >> > as web page" tools of MS Word (if you don't have it anymore you can
as
> >> > someone who still has it, or I think OpenOffice also has a similar
> >> tool).
> >> >
> >>
> >> Because there are 200 of them.
> >>
> >> Dotan Cohen
> >> http://what-is-what.com
> >> 323
> >>
> >
> >
> > Open file, choose file, save as web page, close file ~ 2 minutes
> > 200 files * 2 minutes = 400 minutes ~ 7 hours
> > How much hours have you wasted looking for a php script?
>
> even if it takes him 14 hours to find a script and get it working
> he will have:
>
> a, learnt quite abit about php'ing/html/etc
> b, have the basis for a tool that can convert any future .doc
> files that he finds/get thrown at him.
>
> Martin the suggestion you give sucks because it doesn't empower,
> it leaves Dotan with a sore wrist and no gain in knowledge...
>
> maybe it's good advice for 'noobs' on an Office mailing
> but this is a lsit about programming (sure it's php and plenty of IT
> related people consider us phpers to be the pretty much the lowest form
> of programmer - well not as low as VBscripters ;-) - anyone reading,
posting
> here, I would hope, aspires to a little more than PHB's secretary with
> regards to their IT skills.
You're completely right about that. Maybe living too much at the edge of the
deadline has turned me into boring freak (most probably). I have to take
this way of thinking out my mind.
> >
> > Anyway, I understand... it's a pain in the ass. Whay you're doing wrong
is:
> > you have turned your solution into a problem and forgot what the real
> > problem was.
>
> this assumes there is a 'problem' - maybe Dotan is driven more or less
> by a desire to see if he can do it rather than being up against some
deadline
> or having his boss breathing down his neck waiting for a result?
>
I disagree. There is always a problem, the kind of problem you're referring
to is "I'm lacking this knowledge, or I want to know how to do X", in his
case X would be "converting word docs to html with a php script".
My first impression was that this was his problem, but deducing from what he
explained after, I'm certain this isn't the problem he wants to solve, but
rather a solution he came up but is unable to put into practice.
I think this time PHP is not the solution. A shell script interacting with a
third party tool, or a C program interacting with a third party library will
be a much more appropiate solution.
Jochem, Martin,
I had considered the prospect of converting the documents one by one.
As Jochem had mentioned, time is not the only factor- I need a method,
not a solution. Even if there were 20 instead of two hunderd it would
be worth my while to learn to deal with them in an automated fashion.
I do agree that a bash script or C would be better suited to this. Too
bad I don't know either language. I am not in CS, I am in mechanical
engineering, but I am willing to learn. However, sometimes solutions
come before learning, so I decided to try a language that I at least
have a handle on. In any case, just as php has Simple XML functions
and a thousand other time-savers, I had hope that there would already
be a function or class that solves my problem.
Thanks, guys. I will check out wvware and see where it leads me. I
appreciate the advise!
Dotan Cohen
http://technology-sleuth.com
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