Saving output of php to html file

[Anon]

Hello everybody,

after looking everywhere for about 3 hours without finding an answer, here my question:

I have a page, /show_page.php?ID=8 which should be displayed in the browser. At the
same time, I would like to save the output of this file in a static html file. Using php.exe like

./php.exe -f show_page.php?ID=8 > htmlfile.html

will produce an empty file (php 4.1.2, WIN2000)

Am I missing something terribly simple here?

Thank you for your help

Susan

[Anon]

Do you want the output to a dos-box or don't i know where you talking about?

most people use php for displaying into a webbrowser.

[mistcat]

err. so you are in the php.exe directory, you have your show_page.php file in that same directory, and you then want to pipe the output to a static html file... on windows.

It might be easier to print the results to a file inside a php script than do what you are doing. I'm nore sure how the php cgi feels about sending the output to a file and to the browser at the same time...

[Anon]

It is unclear what you are trying to do.

If you want the script to save a copy of its own output, see the manual pages covering output buffering (ob_start() would be a good place to start). Buffer the output, then echo it to the browser, then save the buffer to a file.

I can't help you with the part of your question that appears to deal with running programs under MS-DOS.