At 11/19/2006 08:50 PM, John Comerford wrote:
I am new to PHP and I am looking at mixing dynamic and static pages
to build my web application. I have a situation where, depending on
some parameters I will display a static page from within my PHP
code. My question is, is there a 'trick' to doing this or do I just
read in the file and echo it out again ?
If I understand you correctly, you've got a PHP script that
determines whether to download dynamic content or a static page. In
the latter case, you have some options:
a) You can redirect to the static page. It can have either an .html
extension or a .php extension. If all it contains is HTML markup,
that's what will be downloaded to the client.
http://php.net/header
header("Location: http://www.example.com/";);
b) You can read the HTML markup from a separate file and echo it to
the client. (e.g., file(), get_file_contents())
http://php.net/file_get_contents
echo file_get_contents('example.html');
c) You can embed the static HTML markup inside your PHP file and echo
it to the client. (e.g., heredoc)
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc
echo <<< label
<html>...</html>
label;
I put these three in order of personal preference. I try to separate
PHP logic from HTML markup whenever possible, and I can't see why
you'd want to embed the HTML in your PHP file when it would be much
easier to maintain as a separate file. Reading the HTML with PHP and
echoing it to the client is fine but seems like a questionable use of
server resources if your goal can be achieved simply by redirecting
to the static page.
Regards,
Paul
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