[Resolved] Dynamic PHP Pages to Static HTML - Help

[mnewhart]

I want to use several simple layout php templates to build my site, which is an ecommerce site. There will be a ton of pages when finished and I do not want to generate them dynamically. I want to create Static .html pages. I know how to build the php pages. I know I could essentually do a view source, but not for hundreds of options/properties of my products.

I need to know if someone has a way to read a file with GET params i.e. index.php?a=1&b=2 and then feed this returned pages html to a file -> 12.html. I have tried several file handle / fopen() things and even a curl example from phpfreaks site that do not seem to work. Could someone please point me in the right direction. Much apprecaited.

Matt
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[devinemke]

have a look at this.

[pnoeric]

wow, killer article that you were referred to.

another option is using the smarty template engine, and outputting the results to a file instead of the screen. but I think that article is probably a more immediate solution for where you're at right now.

best
Eric

[mnewhart]

I figured it out. That article was not quite what I was looking for, but very informative. Thanks Here is my code that I will use ( along with a bunch of Mysql and loops, etc.) to get the job done.

<?php
  $myurl = "/test/newsite/index.php"; 
  if (isset($_GET['test'])) {
    $myurl.="?test=".$_GET['test'];
  }

  $mycontents = file_get_contents($myurl);

  print $mycontents;

  $handle=fopen("index.html","w+");
  if (!fwrite($handle, $mycontents)) {
    print "Cannot write to file ($filename)";
    exit;
  }

  fclose($handle);

  print "finished!";
?>

I can use the file_get_contents() to a url that is a php file (with option tags and it will build my static .html pages. Thanks all.

Matt
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