RE: [PHP] how to generate static html pages from dynamic php page s

All this talk of a patented idea - hmmm... isn't the GIF file format parented?? But a lot of ppl still use it without paying :) <evil grin> -----Original Message----- From: John Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:41 PM To: 'Nicole Lallande' Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] how to generate static html pages from dynamic php pages > As to the second concept -- you can do this using apache rewrite rules > -- I remember seeing an article about it a year ago and unfortunately > lost the link to the article. <sigh> Anyone remember this article? Yeah, I know about that, too. But with that, the request still goes through the database and PHP once the variables are exploded() form the URI. What I'm talking about is a user goes to a nonexistent page, www.domain.com/products/1234 and should get a 404 error. Instead, your 404 page looks in the database for product 1234 and sees if it exists. If it does, it writes the file products/1234/index.html with the data from the database. Now, when the next person follows your link to www.domain.com/products/1234, they get your html page, instead of hitting PHP and the database, thus saving you some resources... Except you can't do this...b/c it's patented... I think I'm just going to make that my .sig from now on... :) ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php