On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:10 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to replicate a site on another domain, and in this case, an > > iframe won't really do, as I need to remove some of the graphics, etc > > around the content. The owner of the site I'm needing to copy has asked > > for the site to be duplicated, and unfortunately in this case, because > > of the CMS he's used (which is owned by the hosting he uses) I need a > > way to have the site replicated on an already existing domain as a > > microsite, but in a way that it is always up-to-date. > > > > I'm fine using Curl to grab the site, and even alter the content that is > > returned, but I was thinking about a caching mechanism. Has anyone any > > suggestions on this? > > Sounds like you're creating a proxy with post processing/caching on the > forwarded content. It should be fairly straightforward to direct page > requests to your proxy app, then make the remote request, and > post-process, cache, then send to the browser. The only gotcha will be > for forms if you do caching. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > The only forms are processed on another site, so there's nothing I can really do about that, as they return to the original site. How would I go about doing what you suggested though? I'd assumed to use Curl, but your email suggests not to? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
