SSI -> PHP conversion

[dsntre]

I've got this website with hundreds of pages using ssi.
I need to get just the raw content out of them and store them somewhere else on the server.
The problem is, they are all in different directories...
I.E. /nav/subject/page/index.shtml
/nav/subject/page2/index.shtml
/nav/subject2/page/index.shtml
/nav/subject2/page2/index.shtml

etc.
I know it's a horrible way to do things -- this is why I'm trying to change them. I need to literally write a script to do the job for me because there are so many pages. Hundreds upon hundreds. Wayyy too many for a manual conversion. I don't know anything about switching directories -- obviously it would have to
1) List directories
2) Choose the directory
3) Choose a page
4) Read the file
5) Replace everything I didnt want in it with "" or something, deleting everything but the raw content then save it to another directory as the name of the subject plus a page number or something .php
6) Go back
7) Go into the next page
8) Repeat step 5
9) go all the way back to /nav or whatever and repeat over and over

The other concern I have is the maximum execution time for PHP
is this going to be over 30 seconds, etc.

Solutions... help?

[firepages]

OK, this code searches recursively from a given starting point all the directories and subdirectories.. I use it for finding and deleting .bak files that I have forgotton to delete.

You would have to tweak it but at least it gets over the recursive stuff which is a pain..

<?
if($input){

function GetDirArray($sPath,$del) {  global $num_bak, $fileval;
$fileval="bak";//CHANGE THIS TO SHTML OR WHATEVER//
$handle=opendir($sPath); 

    while ($file = readdir($handle))
        { 
    $retVal[count($retVal)] = $file; 
        } 

closedir($handle); sort($retVal); 

while (list($key, $val) = each($retVal)) { 
    if ($val != "." && $val != "..") { 
            $path = str_replace("//","/",$sPath."/".$val);
            

            //THIS BIT DODGILY CHECKS IF THERE IS A FILE *.BAK AND DELETES IT//
    if(substr($path,-3,3)==$fileval)
            {
echo $path;

                if($del){
                            //PUT YOUR CODE HERE//
                    $path = str_replace("//","/",$sPath."/".$val);//unlink($path);
                    //END HERE!//
                }


                $num_bak++;
                if($sPath!=$oldpath)
                        {
                        echo "<br><b>$sPath</b><br>";
                        $oldpath=$sPath;
                        }
            echo "$path <br>"; 
            }

    if (is_dir($sPath."/".$val)) 
            { 
                GetDirArray($sPath."/".$val."/",$del); 
            }
        }
    }
}  

GetDirArray($input,$del);
if($num_bak)
        {
            echo "<h3>Total $num_bak .$fileval files</h3>";
            echo "<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?del=1&input=$input\"><h4>Delete *.$fileval files</h4></a>";
    }else{
            echo "<h4>There are no .$fileval files to delete</h4>";
        }
    echo "<br><a href=\"$PHP_SELF\">back</a>";

}else{//if input//

?>
<form name="bella" method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
Directory to scan for <?=$fileval;?> files:<input type="text" name="input">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="go">
</form>
<?}?>

(Note the path to enter directories is relative to $DOCUMENT_ROOT)

So in the //PUT YOUR CODE HERE BIT// , you should perfom any operations you want on the file (which will be called $path).., this script lists the files that will be affected before actually doing anything & I have commented out the unlink()!!!!

hope its useful in some way? ,
PS I scan my whole C:\ drive with this script and have yet to time out, but you can set the timeout value runtime if you run into problems.