Creating static html files from php file

Anon

<?
$fp = fopen ("/path/to/dump.html", "w");
fputs ($fp, readfile ("http://www.server.com/file.php"));
fclose ($fp);
?>

I am trying to use the code above as per

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1196/fid/73

but the file.php is being printed when I run this page rather than written to the dump.html file. And the character string is being written to the dump.html file.

Basically, I want to grab the source code (php processed just as the browser reads it) and save it as an .html file. This will allow me to run the website off of a CD with all the PHP variables embedded in the html file.

Any help would be great.

Alex

Anon

The faqts page is wrong; readfile() is supposed to behave the way you describe.

Instead, implode() the results of file() and write THAT into your .html file. Read the manual pages for both of those functions carefully.
Or, you could use any of dozens of utilities that are specifically designed to mirror Web sites into static documents, such as GNU wget.

Anon

Thanks.

Worked first go. For those of you searching for this in the future...

<head><title>This file does the grabbing</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$fp = fopen ("/path/to/outputfile.html", "wb");
$file_text = implode('',file("http://www.yourdomain.com/path/filetosuckin.php"));
fwrite ($fp, $file_text);
fclose ($fp);
?>
</body>