need help with putting my old site in to a new one without copying old

is there a way to do it with re coding

[flying monkey]

can i convert my old site in to my new one dynamically. is this possible. i heard someone talk about it but am not sure how to do it. any help would be nice thanks

[vkaryl]

Not at all sure what you mean - could you be more specific please?

[flying monkey]

well i have an ld site, about 2 thousand pages, and am tring to redo the pages. is there a way to put them in to the new one but i dont want to do it manually. is there a script i could write that would take out all the FP crap and just copy the main stuff in to the new page

[brucec]

There is always a way, but what do you mean by "FP"?

If you know XML, that is a good way. Since SML is universal, you can write a script to make the old site converted to XML and then a script on the new site to accept it. Do you have an SQL or MySQL database backending the old site?

[flying monkey]

no. FP syands for Fornt Page. there is not data base on the old site but there is one on the new one. i dont know sml or xhl. are they hard to learn. isnt there a way to do it in php since that is what i know.

[jatar_k]

well you could write a script that strips all the stuff you don't want out and resaves them in a new dir.

I couldn't say whether it would take longer to do it by hand or write the scraper.

I doubt there will be a real easy route on this project.