Creating an HTML file by combining multiple PHP files via the command line?

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Is it possible to combine multiple PHP files via the command line and create an HTML file?

For example, this will save the rendered version of a single PHP file as HTML:

php /path/to/my/file/filename.php > /path/to/my/file/test.html

I need it to combine multiple files, but I can't seem to get it it to work. Ideally, it would be something like this:

php /path/to/my/file/filename.php + /path/to/my/file/filename2.php + /path/to/my/file/filename3.php > /path/to/my/file/test.html

Is this possible? If so, how?

user479911 · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-16 23:18:28Z

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Maybe you could do:

php file.php > someFile.html
php file2.php >> someFile.html
php file3.php >> someFile.html

answered Feb 16, 2011 at 23:18

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scragz · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-16 23:18:47Z

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You can use >> to append output in bash.

touch /path/to/my/file/test.html
php /path/to/my/file/filename.php >> /path/to/my/file/test.html
php /path/to/my/file/filename2.php >> /path/to/my/file/test.html

answered Feb 16, 2011 at 23:18

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raylu · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-16 23:20:38Z

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I think what you may be looking for is cat file1.php file2.php file3.php | php > file.html

answered Feb 16, 2011 at 23:20

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