Can I automatically save PHP generated pages as HTML?

imi_99

I have all my pages on website in PHP. There are few issues with databases and with my hosting company. That is the reason if number of users are more than certain limit at a time then website wont show and show error messages.

What I want to do is to get all php pages and convert into html automaticaly and save as html on the server. So everytime when some data is updated on my website I will take php pages convert them into html pages and then save it.

In that way I can save number of database connections because users can view html pages databases. I got plenty bandwidth so should be ok for me on doing this.

I got this script from somewhere but it wont work for me and give me error messages.
<?php
$files = file("filelist.txt");
for($i = 0; $i < count($files); $i++) {
ob_start();
include ($files[$i]);
$page = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
if(strpos($files[$i], ".php") > -1) {
$file = fopen(substr($files[$i], 0,strlen($files[$i])-4) . ".html",'w');
fputs($file, $page);
fclose($file);
}
}
?>

Can you please help me how can i get my objective. Is there better way to do this. Or how can I implement this. thanks

The error messages on this script I am getting are,

"Warning: main(index.php ): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/w0401/d04/s45/b0225e10/www/test/dynamic.php on line 5

Warning: main(index.php ): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/w0401/d04/s45/b0225e10/www/test/dynamic.php on line 5

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'index.php ' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/nf/lib/php') in /mnt/w0401/d04/s45/b0225e10/www/test/dynamic.php on line 5
"

I am very stuck so any suggestion will be great.

wilku

There seems to be space in the file name to include - see 'index.php ' - one space at the end. Either delete this space in filelist.txt or replace

include ($files[$i]);

with

include (trim($files[$i]));

which will delete all spaces and tabs from the beginning and the end of the line.

imi_99

wilku wrote:
There seems to be space in the file name to include - see 'index.php ' - one space at the end. Either delete this space in filelist.txt or replace
include ($files[$i]);
with
include (trim($files[$i]));
which will delete all spaces and tabs from the beginning and the end of the line.

thanks I solve the problem. I never noticed about space. How did you recoginse this error. If i know then it can help me in future to avoid from this error again.

thanks again

imi

Weedpacket

imi_99 wrote:
How did you recoginse this error.

Two methods. One, it appears in the error message:quote[/quote]Two, it's mentioned in the manual's page on the [man]file[/man] function:

Note: Each line in the resulting array will include the line ending, so you still need to use rtrim() if you do not want the line ending present.

imi_99

Weedpacket wrote:
Two methods. One, it appears in the error message:Two, it's mentioned in the manual's page on the [man]file[/man] function:

good suggestion.

Now I realize first time error is there in message "Warning: main(index.php ): "

thanks at least I know where was my mistake.

I am junior programmer. 😃

thanks

imi_99

Hi again,

Come accorss other issue while solving it. SO need your suggestion again.

As wilku described I can remove spaces using trim function,

include (trim($files[$i]));

But Suppose if file name is index2.php, then how can I remove space and (OR only number) number so that I can save file as index.html

imi

wilku

[man]preg_replace[/man] is what you probably need. It uses regular expressions (thing to learn, because it's sometimes usefull 😉 ).
Here's an example script for you. What preg_replace beneath does is:
- take $name and find one or more characters 0 to 9 (that's what [0-9]+ mean)
- replace found characters with empty string ""
The second one is different by dollar sign which means that [0-9]+ must be at the end of the string.

<?php 
$input="123index2.php";

//removing .php
$name=substr($input,0,strlen($input)-4);

//remove all numbers and add .html
$output = preg_replace("/[0-9]+/","",$name).'.html';

echo "Remove all numbers: $output";

//remove numbers at the end and add .html
$output = preg_replace("/[0-9]+$/","",$name).'.html';

echo "<br>Remove end numbers: $output";
?>

this will output:

Remove all numbers: index.html
Remove end numbers: 123index.html

Be carefull though - what if you have index2.php and index3.php? The second one will overwrite the first as index.html.

imi_99

wilku wrote:
[man]preg_replace[/man] is what you probably need. It uses regular expressions (thing to learn, because it's sometimes usefull 😉 ).
Here's an example script for you. What preg_replace beneath does is:
- take $name and find one or more characters 0 to 9 (that's what [0-9]+ mean)
- replace found characters with empty string ""
The second one is different by dollar sign which means that [0-9]+ must be at the end of the string.
<?php 
$input="123index2.php";

//removing .php
$name=substr($input,0,strlen($input)-4);

//remove all numbers and add .html
$output = preg_replace("/[0-9]+/","",$name).'.html';

echo "Remove all numbers: $output";

//remove numbers at the end and add .html
$output = preg_replace("/[0-9]+$/","",$name).'.html';

echo "<br>Remove end numbers: $output";
?>
this will output:
Remove all numbers: index.html
Remove end numbers: 123index.html
Be carefull though - what if you have index2.php and index3.php? The second one will overwrite the first as index.html.

Sounds good. I will try to learn this. The example you provide will help me more to understand this.

thanks again

Imran