Re: create HTML page on the fly

Hi Miles. Well the system that I wrote generates HTML newsletters using templates etc... and before the newsletter is sent out it has to go to moderators for approval.So a moderator will have a link in his email received and it will point to the newsletter in HTML format, also it is needed so that people who cant read HTML emails get a link to the newsletter and can go to that page to see it. Does it make sense?? thanks for your input, much appreciated. Angelo Zanetti Z Logic www.zlogic.co.za [c] +27 72 441 3355 [t] +27 21 469 1052 Miles Thompson wrote:

At 10:26 PM 10/25/2005, Angelo Zanetti wrote:

Hi guys. I've created a small newsletter application and the content of the newsletter is stored in a DB (the HTML). However once the newsletter is complete and the user clicks a button I want the newsletter/html file to be created on the server. How do I go about this? I assume that I will use fwrite() to add the HTML to the file, I need to know how to actually create the file before adding the content to it. thanks in advance. Angelo

Angelo, Does the content in the db contain HTML tags? If so you may need use addslashes(), stripslashes(), htmlentities() and the like as you save and retrieve content. All you really have to do is generate any HTML to start the page, add your content, and then closing tags and echo() or print() the whole shooting match. You could do this with a function called CurrentIssue(). Within the function, as you build the HTML, concatenate it to the function's internal return variable. Then you could simply echo CurrentIssue ; Why do you have to generate an HTML file? Regards - MIles Thompson