I have several old websites that use no php other than simple include lines like this:
<? include_once "includes/header.php"; ?>
Is there any way I can batch convert them over to HTML files so they contain the included content?
I'm hoping to host them as static files.
You could try opening the main PHP file in command line (instead of HTTP request) and outputing to a file.
php main.php > main.html
I pieced together the following which finds all the php files and converts them to html:
find . -iname "*.php" -print | while read filename; do php $filename > "${filename%.*}".html ; done
Breakdown:
This finds all the php files in the current directory & child directories:
find . -iname "*.php" -print
This grabs the filename:
| while read filename;
This uses PHP to convert the files found to html:
do php $filename > "${filename%.*}".html ; done
