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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