USe CFM Template to produce static page 1

[jmcg]

I have a page (generate.cfm) that loops through various steps to produce a slection of text output.
At present I use CFINCLUDE to prublish this my main template (index.cfm) however it makes index.cfm very slow to load.

What I would like to do is run the generate.cfm overnight and produce a static page with all the output text and then include that in the main page.

Do this makes sense. I'm sure there must be a way to do it that I just not thinking of.

Cheers

 

[cfSearching]

Use cfhttp to grab the output of the .cfm page and cffile to save the content to a static file.

----------------------------------

http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/

 

[jmcg]

Thanks cfSearching maybe need a wee bit more help.
Not sure on the CFHTTP part, not sure what to do with it!
Thanks again

 

[cfSearching]

It is very simple. Create a page called runGenerate.cfm. Inside the page put a cfhttp call to your 'generate.cfm' page. Then use cfhttp's path and file attributes to save the content to a static html file. (I forgot you don't need to use cffile to save it).

Once you have the page working, set it up as scheduled task to run every night.

Here is an example that grabs the html of this question and saves it to an html file in the same directory. The name of the file is: tek-tips-question-as-html.html

<cfhttp url="[URL unfurl="true"]http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm"[/URL]
   path = "#ExpandPath('.')#"
   file = "tek-tips-question-as-html.html">
   <cfhttpparam type="URL" name="qid" value="1442939">
</cfhttp>

<!--- debug: show what cfhttp returned --->
<cfdump var="#cfhttp#">

----------------------------------

http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/

 

[jmcg]

Excellent thanks, nice and simply explained

 

[cfSearching]

Glad I could help.

----------------------------------

http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/