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Notes about creating a publishing platform with Scribus and Drupal (DRAFT)
Requirenments
- running Drupal6
- external connection to Mysql database or a shell
Drupal backend
Articles are prepared to publish within the complete workflow system. The workflow system is build with help of: CCK, Views2, Workflow and Diff modules.
Done
- workflow (from Draft state to Published state), revisioning included
- input format -- html, with help of BueEditor and custom button set
- a special dashboard for listing articles in different states (Views2), includes a tab with articles prepared for publishing
ToDo
- Drupal module that allows you to create article presets (i.e. main article, editorial etc.) and informs if your article pass the layout (char counter)
Scribus backend
Articles are fetched by a simple python script and converted to html readable by Scribus.
ToDo
- script works outside Scribus. As a proof of concept we can create a similar script which imports articles directly to Scribus, unfortunately, text formatting is lost in this case...
Possible extensions
- use of markdown syntax
Proof of concept script
#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding utf-8 -*-
import os
import re
import MySQLdb
#database info
host="www.yourhosthere.info"
user="user"
passwd="password"
db="database"
def htmlhead():
header = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
"""
return header
def htmlfoot():
footer = """
</body>
</html>
"""
return footer
print "Scribus/Drupal brigde\n\nby mariusz slonina <mariusz.slonina@gmail.com>\n\n"
#connect to database
try:
print 'Connecting to the database...\n'
db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user,passwd,db)
print 'Connected;)\n'
except MySQLdb.Error, e:
print "Error %d: %s\n" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])
print "Aborting...;(\n"
sys.exit(1)
# create a cursor
cursor = db.cursor()
# # execute SQL statement
cursor.execute("your select goes here")
#cursor.execute("select nr.nid, nr.vid, nr.title, nr.body, pf.value from node_revisions nr
#inner join workflow_node wn on wn.nid = nr.nid
#inner join node n on n.vid = nr.vid
#inner join profile_values pf on n.uid = pf.uid
#where wn.sid = 6 and pf.fid = 4")
# # get the result set as a tuple
print "Fetching articles...\n"
result = cursor.fetchall()
for record in result:
nid = str(record[0])
titleID = "title_nid_" + str(record[0])
bodyID = "body_nid_" + str(record[0])
authorID = "author_nid_" + str(record[0])
file_name = titleID + ".html"
title_text = str(record[2])
body_text = str(record[3])
author_text = str(record[4])
#split body and add <p></p> tags for proper import to Scribus
temp = re.split("\n\s*\n",body_text)
length = len(temp)
i = 0
text = ''
st = ''
for i in range(length):
subtemp = re.split("\n",temp[i].strip())
j = 0
jl = len(subtemp)
for j in range(jl):
if not j == jl - 1:
st = st + subtemp[j].strip() + '<br />\n'
else:
st = st + subtemp[j].strip()
text = text + '<p>' + st.strip() + '</p>\n'
st = ''
print titleID + ":: " + title_text + " -- " + author_text
f = open(file_name,"w")
header = htmlhead()
f.write(header)
f.write('<p>'+author_text+': '+title_text+'</p>\n')
f.write(text)
footer = htmlfoot()
f.write(footer)
f.close()
print "Finishing...\n"
db.close()
print "You can import Your articles to Scribus\nHave a nice day!\n"