copying pages

[Anon]

okay, here is what I want to do, simple in theory, but not really working to well off the drawing board. My site pulls 99.99% of its info from a database, and is updated constantly. writing a search engine to work with the database has been a major pain not to mention a failure. SO, here is what I want to do. When someone visits a page, it pulls data from the database, of course, and displays an HTML page as the end result. I want to be able to copy this 'end result' page to a specific directory, as an html file. this will allow my indexing engine (which works perfectly with static pages) to index these pages and voila, I have a working search engine for my site. I can't seem to understand how this should be done. I thought about using the COPY() command and $PHP_SELF, but no go. any ideas on how this would work?

[Anon]

Try htdig, it will index your dynamic pages and is easy to set up. Oh, and it's open source and works well w/ PHP 🙂

www.htdig.org

G'Luck,

Jack

If you real need to write your files after they are done being built, take a look at ob_get_contents() in the manual, it will give you the contents of the page you're sending to the client.

[Anon]

ob_get_contents only gives you the current buffer, or FALSE if buffering is not active.
ie: this only works when you have output-buffering switched on, which is off by default.
check out the other ob functions in the manual.

Otherwise, use fopen() to call the requested URL from your own site. that will allow you to read your page as a file and write it to a new file.