javascript - html5 offline caching with php driven sites

Question

I have a simple php driven website running and I'm trying to figure out how it treats php pages. Some of my php documents are routing logic and some just includes for individual pages. How do i go about making this work offline?

What I though was that I'd have to re-create the routing logic in javascript. Is that my only option? In that case, is it even possible to have the site be driven by php while online and switch to JS offline? I can't make sense of it.

Answer 1

If your site is fairly static, HTML5's cache manifest may get you most of the way there. Have PHP output a cache.manifest file in the correct format with all your routing system's URLs and those URLs will be stored locally in a compliant browser. Attempting to access them will pull them out of the cache if possible.

If you're looking for something more dynamic, though, you're going to have to do more legwork.

Here's some good info on offline caching.