Saving a page on the server

[sad69]

I'm not sure how to go about this, but what I would like to be able to do is this:

Be able to parse a PHP page -- essentially generating an HTML page -- and saving that HTML/Javascript code somewhere on the server as an .HTML file (or .PHP or whatever...).

Is this possible? In the sense that a user can press a button which would archive the data so that it would be permanent.

I'm trying to devise a solution for retaining old data. Obviously there are two options:
1. store it in the database
2. store it outside of the database.

With option 2, I'm wondering if I can just save the views that my clients will be interested in (and only those) as HTML files -- or even PDF or JPEG files if further possible -- and merely collecting a list of archived views (this list would have to be stored in the database).

So basically, I'm just wondering if it is possible to save a parsed PHP document on the server as an HTML file, by the server, and how to go about doing that. Any pointers to online tutorials or a simple example would be greatly appreciated!

If you need more information, please post and I will reply.

Thanks,
Sadiq.

[raf]

step 1:
generate the html as if you would sent it to the client, but instead of echoing it to the client, you store it inside a variable. Like if you normally would use
echo('This is the first line'.);
then you will now have
$output .= ('This is the first line'.);

Step 2:
the create the file with fopen() in writing mode --> w or w+
see http://be.php.net/function.fopen

Step 3:
dump the $output in the file and close it
http://be.php.net/manual/en/function.fwrite.php
http://be.php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php