Allow multiple pages to be generated from one template

Feature to allow generation of host and episode pages.

site-generator

@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-	site-generator [OPTION]... PAGE...
+	site-generator [OPTION]... PAGE|PAGE=<comma separated list of ids>...
 
 	-p, --preview  print generated pages to standard out
 	-v, --verbose  use verbose mode
 	--help         print this help message
 
 	Where I<PAGE> is a file name of a web page 
-	or the special ALL (to generate all pages).
+	or the special I<ALL> (to generate all pages).
 
 	Examples:
 
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 		Generate the whole site:
 		site-generator ALL
 
+		Generate pages based on the same template:
+		site-generator correspondent=1,3,5..10
+
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 This is a site generator for the Hacker Public Radio website based upon the Perl Templates Toolkit.
@@ -88,12 +91,12 @@ sub main {
 		'verbose'  => \$verbose,
 	) or pod2usage(1);
 	pod2usage(1) unless @ARGV;
-	my (@pages) = @ARGV;
+	my (@page_args) = @ARGV;
 
 	# Set flag indicating whether or not to generate all pages.
 	# The flag is set to true if the special argument ALL is 
 	# passed into the generator
-	my $ALL = grep { $_ eq 'ALL' } @pages;
+	my $ALL = grep { $_ eq 'ALL' } @page_args;
 
 	# Load config file
 	read_config "site.cfg" => my %config;
@@ -101,22 +104,37 @@ sub main {
 	my $tt = get_template_html($config{DBI});
 
 	if ($ALL) {
-		@pages = keys %config;
+		@page_args = keys %config;
 
 		# Remove non page sections of the configuration file
 		# from the generated list of pages.
-		@pages= grep { $_ ne 'DBI' } @pages;
-		@pages= grep { $_ ne 'root_template' } @pages;
+		@page_args= grep { $_ ne 'DBI' } @page_args;
+		@page_args= grep { $_ ne 'root_template' } @page_args;
 	};
-	foreach my $page (@pages) {
-
-		if (exists($config{$page})) {
-			verbose ($verbose, "Generating page: $page");
-			generate_page($tt, $config{root_template}{content}, \%config, $page, $preview);
+	foreach my $page_arg (@page_args) {
+		my %parsed_arg = parse_page_arg($page_arg);
+		if (exists($config{$parsed_arg{'page'}})) {
+			my $page_config = $config{$parsed_arg{'page'}}; 
+			$page_config->{'page'} = $parsed_arg{'page'};
 		
+			if ($page_config->{'multipage'} && $page_config->{'multipage'} eq 'true') {
+				if (scalar @{$parsed_arg{'ids'}} == 1) {
+				  @{$parsed_arg{'ids'}} = get_ids_from_db($tt, \$page_config);	
+				}
+				foreach my $id (@{$parsed_arg{'ids'}}) {
+					$page_config->{'id'} = $id;
+					verbose ($verbose, "Generating page: $page_config->{'page'} with id: $id");
+					generate_page($tt, $config{root_template}{content}, \$page_config, $preview);
+					print "$page_config->{'page'} $page_config->{'id'}\n";
+				}
+			}
+			else {
+				verbose ($verbose, "Generating page: $page_config->{'page'}");
+				generate_page($tt, $config{root_template}{content}, \$page_config, $preview);
+			}
 		}
 		else {
-			verbose (1, "\nWarning: Page $page is not defined in the configuration file.");
+			verbose (1, "\nWarning: Page $parsed_arg{'page'} is not defined in the configuration file.");
 		}
 	}
     verbose (1, "\nFinished processing the files.");
@@ -146,13 +164,12 @@ sub get_template_html (\%@)  {
 }
 
 sub generate_page  {
-	my ($tt, $root_template, $config, $page, $preview) = @_;
-
+	my ($tt, $root_template, $config, $preview) = @_;
 	my $html;
 	if (!$preview) {
-		$html = "$page.html";
+		$html = get_filename($$config); 
 	}
-	$tt->process($root_template, $config->{$page}, $html)
+	$tt->process($root_template, $$config, $html)
 	|| die $tt->error(), "\n";
 
 }
@@ -166,3 +183,73 @@ sub verbose {
 		print ".";
 	};
 }
+
+sub parse_page_arg {
+	my ($page_arg) =  @_;
+	# Split page name from page ids if available.
+	my ($page, $ids) = split(/=/, $page_arg);
+	my @ids = [];
+
+	if(!$ids) {
+		$ids = "";
+	}
+	else {
+		# Parse the page ids and push them onto @ids array 
+		my @ids_by_comma = split(/\,/, $ids);
+		foreach my $id_by_comma (@ids_by_comma) {
+			my @ids_for_range = split(/\.\./, $id_by_comma);
+			if ((scalar @ids_for_range) == 2) {
+				push @ids, $ids_for_range[0]..$ids_for_range[1]; 
+			}
+			elsif ((scalar @ids_for_range) == 1) {
+				push @ids, $ids_for_range[0];
+			}
+			else {
+				verbose (1, "\nWarning: Page $page id range $id_by_comma could not be parsed.");
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ('page' => $page, 'ids' => [@ids]);
+}
+
+sub get_ids_from_db {
+	# Use a template to generate a string of page identifiers.
+	# The template should return the string in the form of 
+	# <comma><identifier><comma><identifier>...
+	#
+	my ($tt, $config)  = @_;
+	my $selected_ids = "";
+	my $id_template = "ids-$$config->{'page'}.tpl.html";
+
+	$tt->process($id_template, $$config, \$selected_ids)
+	|| die $tt->error(), "\n";
+	
+	return split(/,/, substr($selected_ids, 1));
+}
+
+sub get_filename {
+	my ($config) = @_;
+	my $filename = "output.html";
+	my $base_path = "";
+
+	if ($$config{'filename'}) {
+		if (substr($$config{'filename'}, -1) eq '/') {
+			$base_path = $$config{'filename'};
+		}
+		else {
+			$filename = $$config{'filename'};
+			my $padded_index = sprintf("%04d", $$config{'id'});
+			$filename =~ s/\[id\]/$padded_index/;
+		    return $filename;
+		}
+	}
+	# Default naming if full filename configuration is not supplied.
+	if ($$config{'multipage'} && $$config{'multipage'} eq 'true') {
+		my $padded_index = sprintf("%04d", $$config{'id'});
+		$filename = "$base_path$$config{'page'}${padded_index}.html";	
+	}
+	else {
+		$filename = "$base_path$$config{'page'}.html";
+	}
+	return $filename;
+}

site.cfg

@@ -13,9 +13,20 @@ content: page.tpl.html
 
 # Configure the navigation menu and the content templates for each page 
 # of the site:
-# [page_name]
-# navigation: <name of navigation template>
-# content: <name of page content template>
+
+# Configure filename if default name is not desired 
+# (Default is "ROOT/[page_name].html"):
+#
+# filename: OPTIONAL <relative path from ROOT -- optional>
+# * <directory path> -- Must end in forward slash. File will be created 
+#                       in this path with the default naming scheme.
+# * <file name> -- May include a relative path. Should include the file 
+#                  extension. May have [id] marker in path or name which 
+#                  will be substituted with a padded page id.
+
+# Configure pages which use the same content template:
+#
+# multipage: OPTIONAL true | false (DEFAULT = false)  
 
 [index]
 navigation: navigation-main.tpl.html
@@ -28,9 +39,14 @@ content: content-about.tpl.html
 [correspondents]
 navigation: navigation-about.tpl.html
 content: content-correspondents.tpl.html
+filename: correspondents/index.html
 
 [contact]
 navigation: navigation-about.tpl.html
 content: content-contact.tpl.html
 
-
+[correspondent]
+navigation: navigation-about.tpl.html
+content: content-correspondent.tpl.html
+multipage: true
+filename: correspondents/[id]/index.html

templates/content-correspondent.tpl.html

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+	<article>
+		<h2 class="title">Correspondent</h2>
+		<h2>Rho`n</h2>
+		<p><img src="./images/hosts/293.png" height="80" alt="Host Image" /><br>
+		<label>Host ID</label>:<!--% id %--><br><br>
+		   <label>email:</label> <u>roan.horning.nospam@nospam.gmail.com</u><br>
+		   <label>episodes:</label> <strong>12</strong>
+		</p>
+		<h3><a href="eps.php?id=3647">hpr3647 :: Weekend projects</a></h3>
+		<p class="meta"><strong>Released:</strong> 2022-07-26. <strong>Duration:</strong> 00:16:44. <strong>Flag:</strong> Clean. <strong>Series:</strong> <a href="series.php?id=0">general</a>. <br>
+<strong>Tags:</strong> <em>diy, repairs, umbrella, basketball</em>.<br>
+Rho`n rambles about some weekend projects</p>
+		<p><a href="contribute.php">Become a Correspondent</a></p>
+	</article>

templates/ids-correspondent.tpl.html

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<!--% USE DBI(constants.driver, constants.user, constants.password) %-->
+<!--% FOREACH host IN DBI.query(
+	'select h.hostid from hosts as h'
+) %-->
+,<!--% host.hostid %-->
+<!--% END %-->
+

templates/page.tpl.html

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+<!--% IF config.multipage == "true" && config.ids.count() > 0 %-->
+<!--% ELSIF config.multipage == "true" %-->
+<!--% ELSE %-->
+	<!--% page_ids = ['0'] %-->
+<!--% END %-->
+<!--% FOREACH page_id IN page_ids %-->
 <!DOCTYPE HTML>
 <html lang="en">
 <head>
@@ -21,7 +27,7 @@
   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Hacker Public Radio MP3 RSS" href="/hpr_mp3_rss.php" />
   <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Hacker Public Radio Comments RSS" href="/comments_rss.php" />
   <link rel="license" title="cc by 3.0"  href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" />
-  <link href="/css/hpr.css" rel="stylesheet" />
+  <link href="./css/hpr.css" rel="stylesheet" />
   <!--[if IE]>
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/hpr.css" media="screen" type="text/css" />
   <script src="/JavaScript/html5.js"></script>
@@ -124,3 +130,4 @@
 </footer>
 </div>
 <!-- shadow -->
+<!--% END %-->