How do I edit HTML files directly?
Question
I'm trying to build a blog/messageboard that uses static HTML files to serve content. I know MovableType used to manage their blog engiene this way, but using Perl CGI scripts. How do I edit/append to HTML files preferebly using PHP? What other methods would people reccommend?
Solution
In php there are many file manipulation functions. Read more about them here. Here's a quick example creating an html file:
<?php
file_put_contents('an_html_file.html', "This will be in the html file.");
?>
OTHER TIPS
If you want to just edit the files as raw text:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php
If you want to work with actual HTML DOM:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php
(and specifically, loadHTMLFile() and saveHTMLFile())
Depending on how much work you want to do you could just use fopen and friends.