Re: Odd question regarding creating a php file

"Dusten" <dusten@gofrontline.com> wrote: > In reply to Chris. The reason I'm having this page created is because people > will need to be able to see this person's "win/loss" record. I have a script > that displays all of the ppl registered and when you view their page, you > can get a real time report on their ratings. As another alternative: I could > pass the variables into a 'template' page and create it from there, but I > didn't want all my links to be buttons with hidden variables in them. I hope > I cleared that up. So essentially what you're doing is taking data from a database and building static pages based on this data as events occur? One alternative is to pull the webpage contents directly from a database in realtime. Another is to do the same, but cache the webpages and only pull from the database if a query condition is met or the timestamp on the cache is older than an acceptable age. Your method takes extra storage space, probably doesn't easily allow for the presentation of the pages to be changed and involves a disk write on top of a database query. If you don't want to pass hidden variables or variables in the URL query string then if you have Apache you can use its rewrite capability to create "virtual" webpages. For example, see my site http://www.sexcriminals.com/. All of the pages under "Sex Offender Registries", "News Articles", "Books", and "Useful Sites" are pulled from a MySQL database and are being handled by a single PHP script that Apache is directing all web accesses to and which parses the URL to determine what content to show. Maybe something like this would work for you. Then each person would have a unique static-appearing page. -- Steve Werby COO 24-7 Computer Services, LLC Tel: 804.817.2470 http://www.247computing.com/