Using php to save php output as html file?

Is this possible and if so, how do you accomplish it?

You have 2 files:

• template.php
• convert.php

convert.php needs to create a third file called template.html. Then open template.php and copy its generated html to template.html, save the file, and close both.

Is this possible? If not, how else would I save the output of a php file to an html file dynamically?

I might have misunderstood your question now. You could ofc take all the output (all the variables that PHP wants to display as html) and store it in a variable ($textIWantToInsert) and then just write it to a html file:



Not very nice code (but I'm sure you can change it.). If you want to have the info sent from convert.php to template.php you could use $_POST to pass information between files and let template.php create the template.html file.

Else if your server is running apache you can have your .html and .htm being run as .php in specific folders by doing this to the .htaccess file(s) (and perhaps make the .html files collect info from a database instead):



or:



Witch one you should pick depend on your web server. To be honest I haven't tested this, only read about it. There is also the option to have a iFrame in your html file and just load some completley diffrent file. Or use javascript (AJAX?) to "dynamically" load content.

That's kind of the opposite of what I want. I need the output of a php file to be copied to an html file.

The code I posted take text from a php file and create/copy it to a html file, your php output can be stored in varibles and passed to a fwrite() command and then you could have the php output written (copied) to a html file? Maybe I'm missing something here. =O

You can create a http request to template.php via convert.php and capture its output. Much like you would do with any other page.



You can do the same from the command line using exec.

Cool. Question, if you were to use this with getting the contents of a local file, would php look for it locally, or loop back to the server?

Using file_get_contents you need something that will run the script through php interpreter. Apache does that for you, you can do a localhost call if your only running a single website off your server, otherwise you need the domain name to map to a virtualhost.

Running into a little issue here with file_get_contents.
The original php file "template.php" works fine. It pulls some content form an xml file via simplexml. However, when I echo it out in the convert.php file with this code:

It ends up echoing the xml parser where the dynamic content should be. Eg:

Should be:


But is, instead:

I got it to work, needed to use the output buffer functions.