Hi David
Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 04:13 schrieb David Blomstrom:
I joined this list a few weeks ago because I wanted to learn about php.
Unfortunately, I still haven't found time to study it in any depth. Thus,
my question might be a bit amateurish, but it's fairly urgent, so I'd
appreciate any feedback anyone cares to offer.
I'm working on a new website that I need to get online by the end of this
month. I had wanted to do some stuff with php on it, but there's no way I
can learn php and apply it before the July 1 deadline. No problem - I'll
just add the php later.
The catch is that my pages will be registered in search engines with URLs
ending in .htm, something I'll have to address when I switch to php.
Then I saw a discussion on another forum about a guy who was planning on
changing all the .htm extensions on his webpages to .php, whether those
pages use php or not. The general consensus was that that the pages would
work just fine even without php, and they'd be all set up if and when he
got around to adding php.
I'd like to get some feedback from this forum. Do you agree that a page
without php functions or server side includes can be put online with either
a .htm or .php function? If I never add a php function to a page with a
.php extension, could that cause some kind of problems?
This will run, and I think almost without problems. But IMHO it makes no
sense. And I don't know, if all the searchengines out there will be able or
willing to read *.php files (google works fine).
You should know that renaming all that files is not all, you have to do. you
have also to change every single link in your pages, that points to your
pages. I don't know how large your project is, but it can be much work, and
if you do not add lines of PHP-Code to that pages, you can save much time by
not doing so.
But if you are coding new pages, and you are planning to add dynamic contents
by using PHP-Code, than IMHO it will be a good decision to use *.php
file-extensions, because you can save that time later.
Also, I'm thinking of naming all my pages index and sticking them inside
folders. That way, visitors can reach a page by typing in
www.geobop.com/birds/ , whether the full URL is
www.geobop.com/birds/index.htm or www.geobop.com/birds/index.php Is this a
good plan, or do you see any problems?
Surely there will be no problem, but see above.
CU
Thorsten
BTW. It is not a good idea to start a new thread by replying to an old one.
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