Caching a PHP file on the server-side NEED HELP

[lli2k5]

I would like to generate an html file from php code.

This is because my php file runs a lot of scripts, but it is not necessary for the users to rerun those scripts since the final html code will be the same for all users at a point in time.

Is there a way to do this and possibly recreate an html file every five minutes from the php code?

//There is something called compile time caching with Zend Cache and eAccelerator but I'm looking for a way to bypass the need for users to access a php file at all and just access the html version.

[jatinder]

Try Cache Lite (http://pear.php.net/package/Cache_Lite) from PEAR.

[Gonwee]

<?php

$filename = "index.html";
ob_start();

// All your code goes here

$content = ob_get_contents();

// If you get rid of this it will also output the data after running the script
ob_end_clean();

$handle = fopen($filename, 'w');
fwrite($handle, $content);

?>

Will that work?

It just starts output buffering, then once its done with all the code, grabs the contents and puts it into a variable, then cleans out the output buffer. Then stores the variable(the html) to a file, index.html.