Posted by mbstevens on 11/12/07 16:17

Ed Mullen wrote:
> I'm considering using PHP to include the menus on my Web pages. I've
> tested it and it works fine (even though I know next to nothing about
> PHP). My understanding is that the page that will import content using
> a PHP include must have a .PHP extension. Which means that all my page
> names (which now end in .html) will change. Which means that the search
> engine results will point to non-existent pages.
>
> Any thoughts on what I might do about this dilemma?
>
In addition to the others' thoughts about server configuration,
I would suggest you also consider preprocessing. This won't work
on all sites, especially those that require re-writes from data bases
on the fly. But if you have mostly static pages with common menus,
preprocessing works very well. Your page names remain the same. You just
run the preprocessor on a local machine and upload the pages with FTP.

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