Posted by Richard Lynch on 01/18/05 18:41

Chris Bruce wrote:
> sorry for the repost, but my mail server was down from about 11pmEST
> last night to 9:15am this morning and unable to receive responses. Can
> someone forward me responses to this post if any? Thanks. Chris
>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a way to write to a file what the browser would see
>>> (raw html) when viewing a dynamic PHP page. I have numerous include
>>> files, MySQL db queries, loops etc. and I want to generate the static
>>> result of that file and save it as an html page. I have toyed a little
>>> with output buffering to no avail.
>>>
>>> Is there an easy way to do this?

Just build the site you want with PHP, and then use wget to suck down the
pages into your static directory.

Output buffering should have worked, but it's too easy for somebody else
to mess up the buffering if they want to use it for something else in
their business logic.

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