|  | Posted by Ivan Marsh on 10/16/06 20:29 
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:33:19 -0700, pittendrigh wrote:
 > There must be millions of dynamically generated html pages out there
 > now, built by on-the-fly php code (and jsp, perl cgi, asp, etc).
 >
 > Programatic page generation is transparently useful. But querying a
 > database, negotiatinig lots of if-then-else logic and echo'ing html code
 > out on port 80 every time a page is requested has to be a huge waste of
 > resources.
 >
 > Why not use that logic to print static html instead of dynamic? The few
 > pages that need to be dynamic (perhaps the results of a database
 > query) probably represent only a small fraction of the total number of
 > pages that are rendered by on the fly code.
 >
 > Seems to make sense to me. All you need to do is work the output
 > directories into your code logic somehow, and do a few one-time-only
 > mkdirs before printing out the static html.
 >
 > Am I missing something?
 > Why is it so little open source page generation software acually works
 > that way?
 
 If a page has information on it that changes depending on the desired
 content it cannot be a static page, otherwise it is a static page.
 
 I'm not sure what your confusion is.
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