PHP inside PHP

[Anon]

I don't have the facility to install zend optimiser or anything like that on my server, but I'd like to do a similar thing by replacing certain pages with precompiled equivalents. I want to write a script that will take a PHP page and write it back to the server in HTML format so it doesn't have to parse the script every time.
I thought maybe the Virtual() function might work but I'm not using an apache server, any other ideas? I'd also like to avoid having to do something like specify a full URL because I'd like the script to work on my local server as well as the online server.

Thanks!

[Anon]

look up the "output buffering" functions, such as ob_start, and ob_flush. You can do the following.

At the top of your pages you check for a cache-file that is less than X minutes old (perhaps 10). If one exists, you just do a readfile(foo) and exit() [where foo is the cachefile name]. if one doesn't exist, you call ob_start.

Then at the end of the page you write the output buffer to a file and then flush the buffer to the user.

An easy way to generate the names of the cache-files is to take the REQUEST_URI and replace all the /'"?#@$%^{&*()![]{};:<,>`~} with a . (or something). You can check how old a file is with the filemtime function.

-andy

[Anon]

ob_start... is a PHP4 function, it won't work in PHP3 to my knowledge.