How do you programmatically convert a dynamic PHP file into a static HTML file, that would obviously have all dynamic PHP-related values baked in as static HTML?
As the beginning of your script place this:
<?php
ob_start();
?>
At the very end of the script, place this:
<?php
$myStaticHtml = ob_get_clean();
// Now you have your static page in $myStaticHtml
?>
Output buffering reference here:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.outcontrol.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-end-clean.php
View the HTML source in a browser, and save that.
If you want to do this automatically, then use output buffering.
The easiest way is to open the page and to copy "view source"
You can also use
php function $homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/');
and save it in a file
From the related posts:
<?php
job_start(); // your PHP / HTML code here
file_put_contents('where/to/save/generated.html', ob_get_clean());
?>
<?php
ob_start(); // start output buffering
echo "your html and other PHP"; // write to output buffer
file_put_contents("file.html", ob_get_contents()); // write the contents of the buffer to file
ob_end_clean(); // clear the buffer
Somewhere on the top of your PHP file:
ob_start();
After all the processing:
$output = ob_get_clean();
file_put_contents('filename', $output);
And if you then also want to output it for that process (for instance if you want to write cache on runtime but also show that page to that user:
echo $output;
You can also do it with wget
For example:
$ wget -rp -nH --cut-dirs=1 -e robots=off http://www.domain.com/