Re: creating HTML page on-the-fly

At 05:11 AM 7/4/00 -0700, you wrote: >How do u generate an HTML file on-the-fly using PHP? >I'm making a greeting cards site and i'm storing >values in sessions. I want to generate a page >automatically when the user hits the submit button >which will contain his choice of the card elements >which have been stored in session variables. Also, at >the same time a link to the page will be sent by >email. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, since the basic purpose of PHP is generating HTML on the fly ;) But I'm guessing what you are trying to do is to output everything into a static file. I myself had been pondering about this until I saw a posting to this list some time ago. If you're using PHP4 you can utilize the output buffering. Turning the output-buffering on (using ob_start), outputting everything like you would normally do, and then storing the output in a variable (using ob_get_contents) and outputting it to a file =) ---8<--- <? ob_start(); ?> <html> <head><title>Cool Card</title></head> <body> To: <?=$receiver?><br> <img src='<?=$cardimage?>'><br> <? // yada, yada.... ?> </body> </html> <? $data = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); // ... write $data to a file ?> ---8<--- This should probably do the trick, you might want to perform a flush() before the ob_start() if you have output buffering enabled by default. This is _really_ a handy feature of PHP4, saves you alot of keyboard bashing =)