Supersimple static file based (html) php site cache

Question

I have a website that basically only displays things without any forms and post-gets. This website is PHP based and hosted on shared hosting. It rarely changes. I would like to

Answer 1

It's a while since you asked this, but as this is still gathering search hits I thought I'd give you a better answer.

You can do static caching in PHP without .htaccess or other trickery. I found this at http://simonwillison.net/2003/may/5/cachingwithphp/ :

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    exit;
}
ob_start(); // Start the output buffer

/* The code to dynamically generate the page goes here */

// Cache the output to a file
$fp = fopen($cachefile, 'w');
fwrite($fp, ob_get_contents());
fclose($fp);
ob_end_flush(); // Send the output to the browser
?>