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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >