Cron to create static html from PHP?

[Anon]

To speed up the loading of key pages which don't change that often, like the main page of my website, I started using fwrite and cron to create the html.

My question is what would happen if a user tried to access the page at the exact moment that cron was running the script that would overwrite the index.htm file with the new one? Is this something I need to worry about?

Thanks,
Doug

[brandonschnell]

or you could have cron save the html to a new file which would take the most amount of time then rename the new file to index.html or whatever it needs to be called. the rename would take a very short period of time so few if any users will be affected.

for example www.yahoo.com will show the default netscape server page when they're swapping out their files.

[sepodati]

I don't know how you create your static pages, but one way is to use output buffering. There's an example of it in the user comments section on this page in the manual:

www.php.net/ob_start

It might be easier for you, maybe not...

---John Holmes...