Posted by Ed Mullen on 11/12/07 19:09

mbstevens wrote:
> 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.
>

But, wouldn't that mean that the HTML that I want to include using PHP
would then be physically present in all the html files? Or am I
misunderstanding?

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