Static Page Generator Programs

[IanTurner]

I am looking for static page generator programs so that I can generate HTML file from a database of content. Has anyone got any good recommendations?

[Mike_Mackin]

You should be able to do that from within the database using fields and scripts that give you a result that is pure text. Plus a script that changes the file name and places it in a folder. I did it in FilemakerPro 2 years ago but can't remember all the stepsI used.

[Woz]

Ian,

I was playing around with the Alma [alma.co.uk] page generator before I started learning ASP. You set up a template with field codes, connect to an ODBC database via SQL, hit GO, and it spews out either pages or an index of pages depending on what you want. Does a very good job although, as I say, I decided to go dynamic.

I am sure there are others although this is the only one I played with. This search on Google [google.com] gives a few possibilities.

Onya
Woz

[click watcher]

i've used and use DB to web [endpoint.freeserve.co.uk] with great effect, from an access database, advanced functions require pro version but only #10uk i think, its basic but does the trick.

also excellent but expensive is GDIdb [gdidb.com] this does anything you could want, creating html pages from a database,

i'm sure the accomplished scripters and programmers can knock stuff together themselves to do this, but if you want an off the shelf package i've tried both the above and been happy with them, the second is much better the first much cheaper.

[IanTurner]

Thank you all

[Woz]

Ian, please let us know which one you go with and why when you make your decision.

Onya
Woz

[IanTurner]

Okay will do

[Robber]

Hi there Ian, I wrote a VB application for exactly this purpose. The app was used firstly to extract info from an email and update the DB, once all info was checked another click of the button created the relevant html. Worked pretty well and we are still using it.

[IanTurner]

Having looked at a number of page generator programs I eventually decided on FileScriptingObject in ASP. Because it gives me total control of all the HTML in the page.