Generating Static Pages

Anon

Is there any way to generate a static HTML page from a dynamic PHP page?

I started to write a script which would read the URL into a file and then write the file. I would have then set this script up so that it run from the cron thingy.

But I get a " Maximum execution time exceeded" error - and as it's a hosted website I can't change the time variables.

Does that make any sense at all? I hope so - my brain is fried at the moment.

I haven't got much knowledge of Perl - but I can hack simple scripts - is that the answer? Should I not use PHP for this kind of automated script?

Thanks.

Anon

Just a trick how to deal with this maximum execution time...
If you're reading a number of files, it is logical to suppose that there can be too many files for any maximum execution time. In this case what I do is just open this script from itself for each new file. Do you get the idea? For one file it is executed during a second. And then opens itself for the next file - again for just a second.
Hope it helps...

reagent

Even though it is a hosted website, you can certainly use set_time_limit():
http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

Anon

But I'm only reading one file - or one http page...

Anon

Cheers! Didn't know about that one. I'll give it a go, I'm sure it'll work now.

Thanks.

reagent

FYI, that will not work if your isp is running in safe mode

Anon

It takes longer to time out now. So they can't be running in safe mode.

But there must be something wrong with my script...

Still, that I should be able to fix ;-)