[FX.php List] Using PHP script to create other PHP Scripts

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Are you guys reinventing LISP?

ggt667

2008/9/25 John Funk <criticalsolution at comcast.net>:
> I think I do, How about this for an idea at a very high level:
> "Write" the php code that generates the html to another php file as a
> function. Then call the php file as an include using a variable for a
> filename and parameters. I am I close?
> John Funk
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> On 9/25/08 3:37 PM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
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>> This a continuation of the evolution of my master search/display
>> script that serves multiple clients.
>>
>> In short, the master script queries a filemaker database to get
>> parameters on the file, layout, fields, etc...and then inserts these
>> parameters to the master script.  Then, the master script performs
>> whatever data queries the end user has entered. The end result, a
>> single script that can be re-purposed for unlimited uses.
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>> The downside is, the system goes through this process of redefining
>> the structural part of the page each time the user queries the data.
>>
>> What I would like to do is to *not* dynamically generate the
>> structure of the page each time. Intstead, I'd like to do that just
>> once and have the PHP script saved ahead of time.
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>> So, the php script that now echos HTML to screen, must now save php
>> code to a php file instead. That file will be executed later, until
>> the structure has been re-generated.
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>> Now...I KNOW that I probably didn't explain this properly, but I'm
>> hoping that the idea of what I am trying to do will be evident.
>>
>> Anyone understand what I'm trying to do?
>>
>> Jonathan
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