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I have a question about saving website coding data.

We want to save the data and html page coding of the pages we've created; so if I wanted to use that data to recreate the page, I could do so easily. The only way I know now is to go to each page and copy the html data from each page.

Is there a better and more efficient way to save the data, like a feature in the admin panel or something? I would appreciate any answers you can give me.

Thanks.

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CE_Cache has a static cache handler that saves the generated html to a file. You can then grab them from the cache folder. I don't know of any other addons that generate rendered html from pages. But they may exist.

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Yes, you can save your templates as files and edit them externally and EE will use them instead of the database version.

old article but might help

Documentation here. Also this tip for changing in bulk.

Once they're external it makes it far easier it utilise version control and backup, I'd strongly advise in looking into Git - bit of an old article but might help.

Update

If you want to copy an entries html, rather than the template, try MX Cloner EE2 only.

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  • I think he means that he wants to save the rendered page, not the template.
    – Jim Wyse
    Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 14:10
  • Oh. Whoops. I'll update with reference to MX Cloner. Should have made the question more clearer!
    – Peter Lewis
    Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 14:14
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You could use CE Cache which generates static html-files. From the CE Cache documentation:

The server will check to see if the static driver has already made a flat html file of the requested page in the past. If a flat file is found, it will serve it up, completely bypassing ExpressionEngine®. If it has not, or if the page has expired, then the page will be requested from ExpressionEngine® and cached to a flat html file.

I use CE Cache but not with the static driver, because I always have some dynamic content here and there. So I am not sure how the cached data is structured, but as you can browse the files through the control panel I assume that they are structured in a handy way.

If you want to be sure just head over to the CE Cache support forum at devot-ee and ask Aaron himself.

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