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HTML Post Production Processor (HPPP)

HPPP is an HTML code generator which can take a template HTML file embedded with PHP scripting code and special comment tags to generate a release version of your pages.

For example you could use HPPP to do the following things:

  • Include HTML code (taken from an existing file) inside your pages automatically.

  • Run PHP scripts at production time to generate code which will be put into your pages. There are a lot of things like side columns which are not really dynamic thus could be created statically, but it's so boring to type them by hand in all the pages (and error prone when it's time to modify them) that people usually let the PHP module of their web server make them on the fly. Each time an visitor fetches the pages your column will be equal but it gets created again consuming the computing power of your web server uselessly.

  • Reduce the size of your HTML pages: the HTML editors usually leave a lot of tabs or whitespaces on the left side of lines in order to keep a human readable indentation (useless to browsers), but this affects the size of your HTML pages noticeably. With HPPP you can trim unneeded whitespaces away in the release version of your pages thus optimizing your web server transfer.

  • Automatically remove comments which are useful for you but should not be seen by clients. You will keep the comments in the source files but not in the released pages.

  • You want to create a partial web page for the purpose to add dynamic content with server-side scripting but your favorite HTML editor complains because it says the markup of your partial page is invalid? Add some markup so that your editor stops complaining and then remove it automatically at post production step with HPPP.

  • Do ANY sort of other processing over your pages, providing you are able to write your own PHP processing function.

Using HPPP is not the same thing as using PHP scripting directly because (apart from the extra features) with HPPP you can keep the PHP code used to generate post-production effects separated from the PHP code which should stay written in order to be executed at runtime by your server.

See the manual bundled with the program to know more.



Note: the program is being released in these days in the first betas. For this reason it will change frequently and I'm not going to report here every change. You can download the zip archive every a few days to see if the version has changed. Simply starting the program with "hppp" from commandline will tell you the current version number.

HPPP is freeware.
Download the current version 0.8 BetaX + Manual [~64K] (Beta version tracking will begin after version 1.00)

Your comments at this prerelease stage are VERY appreciated, send me emails NOW!
You will probably not receive a reply but all emails will be read and if you send me ideas and I like them and they do not require too much work and I have some time ... , I will implement them. In that case I will obviously put your name in the credits.

What's New:
Version Changes
 - Note: Version history will begin after the beta stage