PHP includes

[GeXus]

Does using php includes throughout your site matter for SEO? The search engines will see the page after all the includes are made, right?

[Pretend]

Yeah, after all the includes.

[kwvarga]

php is serverside so output will be same on google as it is on your screen

[pcarlow]

Right, PHP and SSI are all kosher with the SE's.

[I, Brian]

Everything is fine with phpincludes - it's just a must easier way of constructing websites.

I love them.

I wrote up a simple tutorial on using them here:
http://www.business-talk.co.uk/showthread.php?t=287

[crazyhorse]

check my sig... still fine tuning though

[Geert C.]

Yaah php is nice but when you use variables you have to rebuild pages to non variable pages.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by Geert C.

Yaah php is nice but when you use variables you have to rebuild pages to non variable pages.

what does that mean?

[samer]

i loved your article Brian

[James Trotta]

I wish I'd done that before creating hundreds of static html pages...

[ferret77]

I think he means using parameters in the url

google will spider pages wiht parammeters in the

it just doen't show pr for shit

[GoldDust]

Originally Posted by James Trotta

I wish I'd done that before creating hundreds of static html pages...

ha ha yeah tell me about it, I wish I had known what i know now -

[I, Brian]

My first ever site had 700 static HTML pages.

I changed the design for the pages 3 times over 2 years.

I didn't even have a global editor in those days.

Now I so love php includes and global editors.

Change two files and I can completely change my page layouts for the entire site. I guess sometimes you just have to learn the hard way, though.

[Runilo]

Hmm, what are global editors?

[awall19]

Originally Posted by Runilo

Hmm, what are global editors?

I think he is talking about things like dreamweaver templates and stuff like that but I am not entirely sure.

dreamweaver templates allow you to manipulate the outlook of every page in a site based on template code in a single file.

[ferret77]

there are a lot of text editors like ultra edit 32 that will do find in replace on whole directories of files

so if you still have a site that is made out of 200 static pages and you want to make changes to all 200

you just use the replace in files function and you can specify what you need changed and it will change it in all 200 at one time

[Stats_Man]

It's conversations like these that make me feel like my web pages were made by hammer--chisel--stone tablets. There was just a lack of php in my brain at the time. I still don't see many results in Google searches in the top 20 with .php extensions though. The Google information for webmasters http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html does not include php. Maybe I'm just paranoid!

[hatchet]

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...e+construction
#1 is created with php

[I, Brian]

By global editors, I meant editors that can edit multiple files and folders -> hundreds, even thousands of files, all edited, in a click of a mouse button. Much better than every page individually, as I used to.

I've used UltraEdit32, but not keen on the way that it takes over - such as viewing page source in IE using UE instead of NotePad. My most used editor is .edit:
http://www.ashleybrown.co.uk/dotedit/

[ferret77]

you pick when you install ultra edit what you want it to open