Flatpress Blog auto-bot-insert script

#!/bin/bash

# A script to see if the directory structure for flatpress exists,
# if not, then create it, then add a pre-determined content file to
# the database. Requires the flatpress php index rebuilder script.
# This absolutely needs to be run as your webserver user, otherwise it
# will completely bork your flatpress database. Trust me on this one.

# This is version 0.9 and the type is BETA

# I think we can assume you've already installed flatpress at this point.

# What do we need to know beforehand?

tdm=$(date +%m)									# two digit month
tdy=$(date +%y)									# two digit year
tdd=$(date +%d)									# two digit day
fpl="/var/www/flatpress/fp-content/content/"	# where does the information go?
hom="/home/chirp/"								# where is the post?
msg="message.txt"								# what do we call the post?
upd="fpupdate.php"								# The updater script.

# End of variable list

# Check to see if our directories exist.

if [ ! -d "$fpl$tdy" ]
	then
		echo "Creating directory ""$fpl$tdy"
		mkdir "$fpl$tdy"
		chown www-data:www-data "$fpl$tdy"
		chmod 777 "$fpl$tdy"
	else
		echo "The directory ""$fpl$tdy"" already exists."
fi

if [ ! -d "$fpl$tdy$/$tdm" ]
	then
		echo "Creating directory "$fpl$tdy/$tdm"
		mkdir "$fpl$tdy/$tdm"
		chown www-data:www-data "$fpl$tdy/$tdm"
		chmod 777 "$fpl$tdy/$tdm"
	else
		echo "The directory ""$fpl$tdy/$tdm"" already exists."
fi

# End of directory check.

# Insert the content into the database

contentdata="$fpl$tdy/$tdm/"
epoch=$(date +%s)

# We need the epoch time because that's going to be our insertion time. It doesn't
# really matter if the insertion is off by a few seconds. Well, it doesn't to me, and
# I'm the one writing the script.
#
# Now, we already have the day of insertion, that's not going to change unless your
# machine is really slow. But we do need the time of day.

if [ "$tdd" -ge "10" ]
	then
		n=4
	else
		n=5
fi

# The date returned may have an extra delimiting space if DOM is less than 10

tod=`date -d @$epoch | cut -d " " -f $n | tr -d ":"`

# create the entry name

entry="entry$tdy$tdm$tdd-$tod.txt"

# Here's the fun part. Now that we have a filename to write, we need to create the content.
# The message file is a flat list:
# Line 1: Post title
# Line 2: Post author
# Line 3: Post category (as a number, must be in your categories list)
# Line 4: Content. May span multiple lines. Use line formatting to span lines (i.e. \n)
#
# commslock is added to all categories to prevent comments!
# Comment out the next line to allow comments.
lck="commslock,"

# If you've locked comments with a plugin, this may do nothing or something unexpected!

pst="$hom""$msg"

# Yes, I know there are better ways to do this. However this is quick and it works.

tit=`cat $pst | head -1 | tail -1`		# heh heh I said tit
aut=`cat $pst | head -2 | tail -1`
ctg=`cat $pst | head -3 | tail -1`
cnt=`cat $pst | tail -n +4`

# Title, author, category, content.

ctl="$lck""$ctg"

# Add lock to post. If lck is empty, then nothing is added. Amazing!

# Now, we need to create the actual file to insert into the database.

# If you want newlines, make sure to use \n after your lines.
# That is:
# This is a line of content.\n
# This is a new line of content.
# This line will appear on the same line as before.

# VERSION|fp-1.0|SUBJECT|Test post|CONTENT|There's nothing here yet!|AUTHOR|mynameisontheserver|DATE|1460056632|CATEGORIES|commslock,3|

qqq="VERSION|fp-1.0|SUBJECT|""$tit""|CONTENT|""$cnt""|AUTHOR|""$aut""|DATE|""$epoch""|CATEGORIES|""$ctl""|"
echo $qqq
echo "Placing into file ""$entry"
echo -e $qqq > "$contentdata""$entry"

# The information has been inserted into the directory, now we need to run the rebuild script.
# Again, pay attention to who runs this particular script. It will kill your database.

# I am going to assume that your php file is located in /var/www/flatpress and your php binary is /usr/bin/php
# Modify if not.

/usr/bin/php -f "/var/www/flatpress/rebuild.php"

# You can move the content file if you want, or simply delete it
# On second thought, this may not work depending on who owns the file.

rm "$pst"

# All done!

exit 0