html generation

[erictchiu]

o Create a subfolder “/generator” for php files
o Create a subfolder “/html” for the html output files
o Use a PHP template to separate out presentation
o Use a CSS files to control styling

[erictchiu]

Use case: we want to build news community sites similar to slashdot.com where people can read and comment about articles. To minimize server load, we want to generate the static html periodically via a cron job to generate all the pages,
rather than dynamically generating each page per http request.