editing multiple html

[happy22]

Does anyone know if their is a way to edit multiple html pages while they are on the server in an easy, efficient way? I just need to add a small link to the bottom of all of my pages, but I have thousands and thousands of pages.

[kpm547]

Should have used server-side includes. But since it doesn't sound like you did...

If the link has to go into the exact same place on every file, then you could write a script (I'm thinking ASP because that's what i know) that will run on the server. The script with loop through all files on the server. It will open the file, read all the contents, manipulate the contents and add in the link that is required. Then save the file over top of the original. Then move on to the next one. I believe this will only owrk if the end of each file is exactly the same so you can set some parameters to basically find and replace.

I've never written anything like this before, but I'm sure it could be done. It could probably be done with other languages as well.