Re: creating HTML page on-the-fly

What is the name of the file? is it a .php3 or a .html ? where is this file stored??? T. Edison jr. --- Daniel Gustafsson <cloaked@hem.passagen.se> wrote: > 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 =) > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ===== Rahul S. Johari (Director) ****************************************** Abraxas Technologies Inc. Homepage : http://www.abraxastech.com Email : abraxastech@yahoo.com Tel : 91-4546512/4522124 ******************************************* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/