I found on the phpbuilder site  and howto generate static web apges --
basically point lynx (or wget) at the site and cat the output to a file.
Really simple, just need to learn php (any good book recommendations?)

Sounds like it a perl vs php question. 

Thanks,

Ben

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David Royer wrote:

> I'd recomend using PHP, maybe with the FastTemplate class to really keep
> the HTML seperate from the code.  If you set this up on your own system,
> then use lynx or wget or something to generate the static pages you should
> be able to make it happen with little trouble.
> 
> One of the books I have at home on php had a section devoted exactly to
> this.  I'll let you know what the book is when I get home.
> 
> Dave Royer
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 	I want to make a relatively simple static web page (my host
> > doesn't support cgi or php or anything). But I want it prety easy to
> > update and having a somewhat large table burried in the html that I'll
> > want to change often makes me think that I don't want to be editing the
> > raw html directly all the time. 
> > 
> > Ideally, I'd like parts of the web page to be generated by reading a text
> > file (including the table in maybe a tab deliminated file) and then I
> > could use perl or php or something? to make the static web page. I'd then
> > just have to make changes to these text files and run a script to update
> > the page. Also, maybe a good html editor that worked well with tables but
> > kept the code pretty clean would work, but so far I haven't found one.
> > 
> > Suggestions on the best way to do this. I'm thinking php, but maybe that's
> > overkill. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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