Saving a PHP file

jmancusi

I am trying to save a php generated report to a new php file, so that it can be opened again at a later date with out having to run calculations again, as it takes about 10 - 15 min to run all the calcs. Is there any easy way to do this other than having php write a new file line by line with a fwrite function? Thanks for the help.
James Mancusi

drawmack

instead of displaying the data directly put it into a variable. Then at the end of the script fwrite the variable to a file and also echo it to the screen.

jmancusi

Might be a little bit trickier than that. For example, one report right now results with 550 results, it is printed out in a sortable javascript table, each result has 12 fields. Might be able to store it in an array and write that array to a file, but might take a long time to read all that out and load it up into php again. I can do it manually if i view the source and save that as something else obviously but wanted something easier for employees to be able to do it. Thank you for your help I will see what i can do w/that 🙂

drawmack

Php is generating the page correct?

Then you can view the source of this page, which php generated and save that, correct?

So what if, instead of just echoing the content to the browser you placed it into a variable in php?

Then you used fwrite to write that variable to a file?

That's all I'm saying to do.

jmancusi

Right. I understand what you are saying. I am just looking for the fastest way to recreate the page. Im going to code it that way today and see how fast it opens. Hopefully its nice and fast and then its solved. Thanks again for the help 🙂

drawmack

my method won't speed the initial load but loading the saved file should be lickity split

litebearer

Here's the basic code for what you are trying to do...

<?php 

/*start the output buffering*/ 
ob_start(); 



/*include the tempate file*/
#############################
# this is he script that does
# your calculations
##############################
require("viewx01.php");

/*get the contenst of the output buffer*/ 
$data = ob_get_contents(); 

/*write the contents to a file*/ 
$fp = fopen("somefile.html","w"); 

fwrite($fp,$data); 

fclose($fp); 

/*clear the output buffer*/ 
ob_clean(); 

/*display some other page - like "you have successfully written a file" or something*/ 
?>

Hope this helps

Lite...

BTW I am using that inconjunction with a task scheduler, an automatic ftp downloader and a javascript to automatically get and print reports from a website, without human intervention (by passing the print dialog box.