Automatic Page Creation

[Guest]

Anyone no where I can begin doing research on automatic web page creation?

For instance, I would like for a user to be able to come to my website, choose a category, and choose the number of webpages that they want created. These pages will automatically be filled with content from my databases. In the end, the user has to be able to download these pages from my website after they have been created.

I have the concept down, I just don't know how to do it or where to begin research. Any suggestions?

[Newsgroup_User]

What server language do you know?

"Xylum" <half21back@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone no where I can begin doing research on automatic web page creation?
>
> For instance, I would like for a user to be able to come to my website,
> choose
> a category, and choose the number of webpages that they want created.
> These
> pages will automatically be filled with content from my databases. In the
> end,
> the user has to be able to download these pages from my website after they
> have
> been created.
>
> I have the concept down, I just don't know how to do it or where to begin
> research. Any suggestions?
>

[Guest]

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Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
What server language do you know?

I use PHP and HTML. I can also use MySQL databases along with PHPmyAdmin.

[Newsgroup_User]

OK. I would google PHP File Creation, which will likely lead you to PHP.net.
See if you can find other, alternate sites that explain things a bit more
tutorial-style (so look beyond PHP.net)

1. Create your templates, which should include your HTML files and CSS.
2. Contructs a class of page. Presumably you don't want the same page made
several times over, so you will need "content, contact, about" or whatever
type of page classes. This should be a table in your database, and have
associated pages (preferably with same name) in each template.
3. Construct a script that can create a copy of your html page
4. Input variables in place of variable holders and rewrite, resave page.
5. Create a zip file of all pages (or rent the sub directory out as a
hosting charge).

The trick will be creating a copy of the file and then rewriting it. You
might look into PHPBB and the templating system it uses (search for *.tpl
files). Their tempalting system basically does this for the board, and can
be used to create other pages. It may be able to be modified to save pages
instead of just pushign them to the client.

HTH,

Jon

"Xylum" <half21back@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
> What server language do you know?
>
> I use PHP and HTML. I can also use MySQL databases along with PHPmyAdmin.