XMLPort 0.3.5 - Bulk Template Importer/Exporter/Archiver

streaker69 · Last edited by streaker69 on Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:50 pm; edited 9 times in total

Took most of the day, but I succeeded in writing a Bulk Exporter for all the different templates. It's based on the Template_Export.php file that comes with cacti with a bunch of modifications.

I'm not a php programmer, so I pretty much fumbled my way through this, it works fine on my machine, hopefully it will work on everyone else's as well.

Basically it gives you the choice of the four types of XML files you can export, displays the list of them and then you hit the Create button and it exports them to directories inside the plugin directory.

Maybe sometime in the future I can write a scheduler for it, but for now it works, just install it like any other plugin.

Please post here if you have questions or issues, I'll do what I can to resolve them.

streaker69 · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

New version, now with Tint Control!!

Just kidding, I've added a couple of new features. I removed the Top tab bar navigation, I didn't think that was needed. I've moved it to the Import/Export area of the console.

I've also added Importing from the local storage area. So you can do a mass export, and then selectively import the files back in.

This PHP stuff isn't too hard now that I'm not doing all my editing in Nano, someone turned me onto jEdit today, so it's been a little easier learning this.

streaker69 · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

Another new version.

I added the feature that you can now create a Zip or Tar.Gz file of your Templates and then download them in bulk.

streaker69 · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:51 am Post subject:

Hopefully I'm not driving you guys nuts with updating this after you've downloaded it. I'm teaching myself PHP and as I learn more, I've been trying to add features I had been thinking of from the start.

Today's change is a minor one. I neglected to mention previously that you'd need Archive_tar and Archive_zip installed in Pear to use the Archive function. Hopefully you guys that downloaded it figured it out and installed it.

I've made a change to the Setup.php file to give file boxes to where your Tar.php and Zip.php files are located. It checks for those files before you attempt to archive anything, if they're not there, it will prompt you to update the settings page.

I'm looking for feedback, whether good or bad, so if you have ideas on improvements or issues, please post here.

thank you.

streaker69 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:42 am Post subject:

Uploaded a new version. I found a bug in one file where I hardcoded a path. Fixed that bug. The only file you need to replace in your plugin is xmlimport.php.

X-dark · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 13

I'm testing your plugin but I don't see how to use it. The only thing I've found is how to set the path to the Tar.php and Zip.php file

streaker69 · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

X-dark · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 13

no I don't see anything there

streaker69 · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:00 am Post subject:

X-dark · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 13

No

Now it's ok. Thanks

X-dark · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 13

There is a bug when the user has no right in the xmlport folder :

streaker69 · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:27 am Post subject:

bodo.bach · Joined: 02 Jul 2008 Posts: 9

Nice addon to Cacti.....

cigamit · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Nice plugin, does it have the ability to import via the command line?

streaker69 · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject: