run php on a script, from a script

[Fred Paris]

Hi

I would like to know if the following is possible and how to do it:

1)
I have a "template" .php file on my server, say template.php.
It contains some PHP instructions and some HTML

2)
I also have a script, script.php

3)
When script.php runs, I want it to run php on template.php, and write
the resulting html output to a file.

I need to say something like:

<?php

runphp ( 'template.php', 'htmloutput.html' );

?>

and obtain a file, htmloutput.html, with the result of php having run
template.php (hope I'm being clear).

The problem is, of course, that the runphp function doesn't exist so
what is the way to do it?

Thanks
Fred

[d]

"Fred Paris" <no**@nono.invalid> wrote in message
news:mr********************************@4ax.com...

Hi

I would like to know if the following is possible and how to do it:

1)
I have a "template" .php file on my server, say template.php.
It contains some PHP instructions and some HTML

2)
I also have a script, script.php

3)
When script.php runs, I want it to run php on template.php, and write
the resulting html output to a file.

I need to say something like:

<?php

runphp ( 'template.php', 'htmloutput.html' );

?>

and obtain a file, htmloutput.html, with the result of php having run
template.php (hope I'm being clear).

The problem is, of course, that the runphp function doesn't exist so
what is the way to do it?

function runphp($in_fn, $out_fn) {
ob_start();
include($in_fn);
$c=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$fp=fopen($out_fn, "wb");
fwrite($fp, $c);
fclose($fp);
}

That's very simple, of course. If something isn't exactly right in how it's
called, it'll fail most spectactularly :) It gives you the general jist,
though - using output buffering to capture the output of a given script, and
then storing that output in a file.

Let me know if there's something you don't understand.

dave

Thanks
Fred

[Fred Paris]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:33:41 GMT, "d" <[e-mail]> wrote:

function runphp($in_fn, $out_fn) {
ob_start();
include($in_fn);
$c=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$fp=fopen($out_fn, "wb");
fwrite($fp, $c);
fclose($fp);
}

That's very simple, of course. If something isn't exactly right in how it's
called, it'll fail most spectactularly :) It gives you the general jist,
though - using output buffering to capture the output of a given script, and
then storing that output in a file.

Let me know if there's something you don't understand.

Thanks !
I'll try that !

[Jasen Betts]

On 2006-02-08, Fred Paris <no**@nono.invalid> wrote:

2)
I also have a script, script.php

3)
When script.php runs, I want it to run php on template.php, and write
the resulting html output to a file.

use "ob_start"(etc...) to capture output and "require" to run the external
php script.

--

Bye.
Jasen

[Albe]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:48:35 +0200, Jasen Betts <ja***@free.net.nz> wrote:

On 2006-02-08, Fred Paris <no**@nono.invalid> wrote:

2)
I also have a script, script.php

3)
When script.php runs, I want it to run php on template.php, and write
the resulting html output to a file.

use "ob_start"(etc...) to capture output and "require" to run the
external
php script.

There is another way to do it. You can eval() the code inside template.php.

<?php
$fc = file_get_contents("template.php");
$result = eval(" ?>".$fc."<?php ");
$fh = fopen("resultfile.html", w);
fwrite($fh, $result);
fclose($fh);
?>

[d]

"Albe" <al**@ambientatom.co.za> wrote in message
news:op***************@equus.up.ac.za...

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:48:35 +0200, Jasen Betts <ja***@free.net.nz> wrote:

On 2006-02-08, Fred Paris <no**@nono.invalid> wrote:

2)
I also have a script, script.php

3)
When script.php runs, I want it to run php on template.php, and write
the resulting html output to a file.

use "ob_start"(etc...) to capture output and "require" to run the
external
php script.

There is another way to do it. You can eval() the code inside
template.php.

<?php
$fc = file_get_contents("template.php");
$result = eval(" ?>".$fc."<?php ");
$fh = fopen("resultfile.html", w);
fwrite($fh, $result);
fclose($fh);
?>

Using eval() is never the way forward :) If you find eval is your saviour,
you've done something wrong :)