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Oct 24.2009

hi all,
i am new to php and i wanted to know if anyone can help me out with this issue. i have a table with various IDs, and for each ID i run a php script to show the contents associated with it, on a webpage. however, i would like to run a “generate_html_files.php” script to take each ID, get the HTML associated with its content and create an HTML file with that content.
i don’t request a complete solution (i won’t say no if you have one) but if one of you guys can point me into the right direction, i would appreciate it.
cheers

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@weenisOct 25.2009 — Check out [url=http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php]file_put_contents()[/url] which will write anything to a file. ?
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@spectatorauthorOct 25.2009 — thanks, the issue that i have is not how to write to a file, it's executing a php script and getting its output as a string to be added to the file
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@weenisOct 25.2009 — Oh! I see. In that case, I guess it depends on your code.

One way could be, instead of echo-ing all your output, keep appending the strings from your statements to a variable (using .= for example), then at the end, echo the variable and write it to the file.

Another way could be to use [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php]output buffering[/url], where you still echo everything, but it's recorded to a variable instead, so then you echo the variable and write it to the file.
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@NogDogOct 25.2009 — If you have an existing script, you could stick an ob_start() at the top of it, then use an ob_get_clean() (or ob_get_flush() if you want to also display the page) at the end to save the output to a variable, which you could then write with file_put_contents().
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@spectatorauthorOct 25.2009 — thanks, i'll give that a try
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