Creating HTML pages via PHP

[Trojan]

Hey Y'all,

how you guys doing? good I hope.
I was wondering if you could create a html file from the entities in the database.

For example, I have various Locations in my database and I now need to write a php script that takes each location and puts it into its very own HTML page permanently. I cant do this manually cos I have 7,000 locations.

I am not asking for the complete solution but for any key functions that I should look. Maybe I need to know if its possible to create HTML files.

any help will be much appreciated.

Trojan

[Weedpacket]

It's possible. An HTML file is a file ('course, in the Unix world, anything is a file, so maybe that's not saying much); so the file functions (like fopen() and fwrite()) are potentially good candidates. There may be something better though...

Check out the output buffering functions (like ob_start() and its ilk), the scenario goes like this. Start output buffering, create the HTML page the same way as you normally would (exactly as if you were sending it to a browser), then use one of the other ob_* functions (whose name escapes me for the moment) to collect all this buffered output into a variable. Create a new HTML file with some appropriate name, and write the contents of the variable into it. Go on to the next file.

This is likely to take a while, what with 7000 files and all to write, so set_time_limit() will probably come in handy.