How do I put a Heavily Programmed Website on a CD for Demo?

[vmarasigan]

I have been asked to put a corporate website on CD for demonstration purposes. The CD would contain a snapshot of what the site looked like at a certain date (eg. News & Announcements, Product Listings). The problem is that the site contains a lot of server-side programming. In other words, simply downloading the site and burning to CD would not work.

Is there an easy way to save a site to disc as a plain-Jane HTML page, with the results of the server-side programming hard-coded in?

[jeffmott]

The problem is that the site contains a lot of server-side programming. In other words, simply downloading the site and burning to CD would not work

If you're trying the capture the server-side programming results at a specific point in time then you can just download and save each page. A server-side script will not return the script itself, only the output of it.

[vmarasigan]

Okay, I may have my terminology wrong. What if it's a site done in PHP, and downloading a page via FTP leaves stuff like this in the code instead of actual content?


<?
if( $id == 1 ) {
?>

[jeffmott]

vmarasigan
and downloading a page via FTP

Download the site via HTTP instead. This way any server-side code will be parsed before it gets to you.