output .php to .html file

[matfish]

Hi, something that sound simple but not sure how to go about it.

 

I have generated in .php an automated way to display an invoice in .php. For example, the URL would be /invoices/invoice.php?invoiceID=2

This then displays the invoice. However what I want it to do is generate and save the .html of this page to a folder under todays date, so when the above is run it saves it to /invoices/html/invoiceID2.html

 

Anyone know how to output and save the .html from a .php file?

 

Many thanks

[otuatail]

You need to save to a database or some text base file amd open the contents of it up in a php page.

 

[MadTechie]

You could cheat, and allow apache to parse it (your need the http://)

ie

$ID = (int)$_GET['invoiceID'];
file_put_contents("invoice".$ID.".html", file_get_contents("http://www.domain.com/invoices/invoice.php?invoiceID=".$ID));

 

or use ob_start();

ie

$ID = $_GET['invoiceID'];
ob_start();
//invoice code
//....
//end invoice code

//at the end save data 
file_put_contents("invoice".$ID.".html",ob_get_contents());

//and display ie
ob_end_flush();

//or clear output
//ob_end_clean();

[matfish]

Thats great thank you.

 

Your first bit of code actually outputs the whole .php file to a .html file (including all the php includes and php code!)

 

However your second code using "ob_start" works fine.

 

Many thanks

[MadTechie]

you need to have the full url including the http://

 

(your need the http://)