Is there a way to load javascript at the server first before displaying the content to the user?

The reason is that there are a lot of info feeds I will be incorporating into my website, and I want all users to be able to see the content (even if their js is disabled) as well as Google being able to spider the content.

I was wondering if their is a PHP routine that could accomplish this...

I'm not sure if PHP could do this, as you'll need something to parse the Javascript. One way you could do it would be (if you have shell access) to write a little script to wget (i think thats the command) the JavaScript URL and store the output locally, then include that using PHP. You could set up a cron job to update it regularly.

Probably the best solution, though, would be to use an XML feed (if available) and parsing this with PHP. It's far more flexible and it will appear as if part of your site to the end users.

I would like to use XML but the majority of the feeds are all javascript.

I was doing some searching and found that there is some type of Netscape server that will do server-side javascript but other than that, haven't found a solution.

I was hoping PHP had some type of pre-load command... but I guess the browser decodes the Javascript which means the server would need a way to decode it on it's end...

I suppose what I could do, is have a private page with the javascript, and then leave a browser open with a php script that refreshed the page periodically and then copied the content into a static file... but I would need a dedicated machine on a dedicated connection that could automatically send the update back up to my host.

Unless...

I had a script that used displayed the javascript rendered content for the first visitor of the day, but then quickly grabbed that content and stored into a file and each visitor at that point would get the static content...