Any Web Masters or HTML Programmers in the House?

[Njord Noatun]

I am well aware that an audio forum may not be the ideal venue for a question about web site management, but the Audiokarma membership has surprised me before with its aggregate wealth of knowledge! I figure if nobody knows the answer, perhaps someone could point me in the direction of somewhere on the Internets where people might know.

The challenge I am trying to find a simple solution is extremely time-consuming and tedious for a human, but lends itself perfectly for computer processing. Here's the problem:

I have a web-directory with many content files: For the sake of example, let's say there are 1,000 service manuals, all in PDF format. There is also one single HTML file designed to provide easy access to this content, using links and appropriate descriptions, to the 1,000 PDF files. I wish to audit the HTML to make sure that every single PDF file is linked to and none are missed. Is there a web site or other program that can do this for me and report the results of missed files, with a minimum of intervention and processing on my part? So, I am not looking for program that identifies broken links, but one that compares files and reports missing links.

In case you want to know why I am looking to do this, it is to further enhance one of the audio document databases I maintain for the benefit of AK members.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Ok this is extremely back-assward but I'm wondering if you could open the HTML file in a Word Processing application, for example Microsoft Word and somehow use whatever built-in file management / auto-indexing support to your advantage? I know that Word can treat HTML as if it's a document, and off you go... I'd think that (back-asswardly) you could use that functionality to assure yourself that no files are being missed in the HTML "document". If you can muck around with a copy of the HTML and edit it so that the file links in the existing HTML are 1 line each, then you can compare the total lines there against the total lines returned when the word processing app indexes the directory... or something like that.

I'm not familiar with what you can do with file management / indexing but it might be worth poking around. Or at least approach the problem from the perspective of someone assembly a document (or Help file) from hundreds of separate files.

OTOH, there must be web tools for this specific task, and hopefully someone will have one for you. Good luck.

[meggy]

Good old Microsoft Front Page 2000 does that, I believe.

[Njord Noatun]

Good old Microsoft Front Page 2000 does that, I believe. Thanks Meggy, but how do you open that function up?

[meggy]

Thanks Meggy, but how do you open that function up?

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[Njord Noatun]

Thank you - will try that.
Best,

[tony584]

I am a web designer / programmer and I suggest sorting the documents by type in a folder tree, then it would be easy to write a php file that would read the documents in each folder and create links for the files, if new files were added, they would automatically be in the generated php, there would be no maintenance.