How can I create a site in php and have it generate a static version?
For a particular project I have, no server side code is allowed. How can I create the web site in php (with includes, conditionals, etc) and then have that converted into a static html site that I can give to the client?
Update: Thanks to everyone who suggested wget. That's what I used. I should have specified that I was on a PC, so I grabbed the windows version from here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm.
Answer
If you have a Linux system available to you use wget:
wget -k -K -E -r -l 10 -p -N -F -nH http://website.com/
Options
- -k : convert links to relative
- -K : keep an original versions of files without the conversions made by wget
- -E : rename html files to .html (if they don’t already have an htm(l) extension)
- -r : recursive… of course we want to make a recursive copy
- -l 10 : the maximum level of recursion. if you have a really big website you may need to put a higher number, but 10 levels should be enough.
- -p : download all necessary files for each page (css, js, images)
- -N : Turn on time-stamping.
- -F : When input is read from a file, force it to be treated as an HTML file.
- -nH : By default, wget put files in a directory named after the site’s hostname. This will disabled creating of those hostname directories and put everything in the current directory.
Source: Jean-Pascal Houde's weblog