Batch/local PHP

Hi,
>
I have never used PHP, so please bear with me.
I have a personal website with about 80 pages
of HTML. I created and maintain this with a
text editor and typing in HTML and CSS.
Sometimes I need to make global changes, such
as changing my e-mail address which is on every
page. Currently, I have to manually edit 80
pages to do this. This is a pain.
>
So, PHP looks like the perfect solution for me.
Only difficulty is that I use free Web hosting
from Tripod, and they don't support PHP. (I
can't switch without changing my domain name,
and I am too cheap to register my own domain.)
>
Therefore, I need a local or batch PHP system
which I can run on my home computer. I could
then use this to convert 80 pages of PHP to 80
pages of HTML, and then FTP these up to my Web
host.
>
Is there a free version of PHP which will
allow me to do this? I run Windows 95 on my
home computer (which cost me $10). Is there
another newsgroup which would be more
appropriate for this question?

anyway, all of that seems a bit feckless if all you want to do is change the
email address. if your webserver is using apache, you can have it include
bits of html into whatever your normal page would produce.

if you're not
familiar with this, then look at the tools your host provides. grep and/or
awk would be awesome for this. use that in conjunction with regexp if you
need to.

Steve wrote:
...>
I don't know whether Tripod Apache or not.
Anyway, the webserver is completely outside of
my control. All I can do is upload files using
FTP. Tripod then serve these with bits added
to include their banner ads.
>>
I am familiar with UNIX tools (although would
develop Perl scripts these days). I thought
that I can't be the only person wanting to do
this, so a solution for it must already exist.
>

I'm not sure that Windows 95 has the networking needed to build
PHP, and I'm not so sure that pre-built versions of PHP can run on
a Windows that old. Do you have a C or C++ compiler? Anyone else
care to chime in on this? Does the pre-built Windows version of
PHP run on Windows 95?

Hi,
>
I have never used PHP, so please bear with me.
I have a personal website with about 80 pages
of HTML. I created and maintain this with a
text editor and typing in HTML and CSS.
Sometimes I need to make global changes, such
as changing my e-mail address which is on every
page. Currently, I have to manually edit 80
pages to do this. This is a pain.
>
So, PHP looks like the perfect solution for me.
Only difficulty is that I use free Web hosting
from Tripod, and they don't support PHP. (I
can't switch without changing my domain name,
and I am too cheap to register my own domain.)
>
Therefore, I need a local or batch PHP system
which I can run on my home computer. I could
then use this to convert 80 pages of PHP to 80
pages of HTML, and then FTP these up to my Web
host.
>
Is there a free version of PHP which will
allow me to do this? I run Windows 95 on my
home computer (which cost me $10). Is there
another newsgroup which would be more
appropriate for this question?
>
Many thanks for any advice you can give.

Hi,
>
I have never used PHP, so please bear with me.
I have a personal website with about 80 pages
of HTML. *I created and maintain this with a
text editor and typing in HTML and CSS.
Sometimes I need to make global changes, such
as changing my e-mail address which is on every
page. *Currently, I have to manually edit 80
pages to do this. *This is a pain.
>
So, PHP looks like the perfect solution for me.
Only difficulty is that I use free Web hosting
from Tripod, and they don't support PHP. *(I
can't switch without changing my domain name,
and I am too cheap to register my own domain.)
>
Therefore, I need a local or batch PHP system
which I can run on my home computer. *I could
then use this to convert 80 pages of PHP to 80
pages of HTML, and then FTP these up to my Web
host.
>
Is there a free version of PHP which will
allow me to do this? *I run Windows 95 on my
home computer (which cost me $10). *Is there
another newsgroup which would be more
appropriate for this question?
>
Many thanks for any advice you can give.
>
--
Regards,
Martin Leese
E-mail: ple...@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID
Web:http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

Martin Leese wrote:>
I am posting an answer to my own question so
that it will be in the archive for others.
>
What I needed was PHP CLI. I am running
Windows 95, so am forced to use version
4.2.3. I downloaded the ZIP archive,
extracted php-cli.exe and php4ts.dll, and
away I go. Something like:
php-cgi.exe -f Test.php Test.html
>
works great, and is just what I was looking
for. Not sure why someone didn't suggest
this. Maybe I posted to the wrong group.
Now I just have to learn PHP (which is a
useful skill to have, anyway).
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