Re: PHP called recursively?

if he wants to burn a cd why dont you just copy the php dir onto a cd? why do you have to parse everything? as an admin I would rather the entire dir then the content of the executed script. plus on your side parseing every url recursivly and getting all the images etc, what a hasle, just copy the dir .. -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com "Thomas Karcher" <thkarcher@gmx.de> wrote in message news:20011221160216.87840.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi PHP users, > > I have a couple of PHP scripts that generate dynamic content for a website. > Now the admin of this website should be able to burn a CD of its pages, so I > wrote another PHP script which calls the CGI PHP executable to get the > content and write it down, like this: > > $content = `/usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/php4 /home/httpd/html/project/foo.php4`; > > But with this line, the server seems to call many many instances of PHP ... > and I don't get the "content" I want ... > The server engine for PHP is CGI. I tried to call "my" PHP4 with another > path, e. g. $content = /tmp/php4 ... , but it's useless. > I changed the "foo.php4" - and really easy scripts don't work at all, e. g. > scripts that only contain phpinfo() or die() or something like that. > > Does anybody know why so many PHP instances are called? > > Yes, another possibility for my problem is to do it with > fopen(http://localserver/...), but this is not very good I think because I > have loops in my script, so for every loop an HTTP request is called ... > very heavy for the webserver ... > > Thanks a lot, > Thomas > >