Hi,
The answer to your question is largely an "it depends" scenario. I would
need to see the code for the index page to really be clear. From what I can
tell you want.
There are a few schools of thought on the methods for getting URL's.
*Supposedly* doing something like "URL/pages/webdevelopment/more_options"
with http/URL rewriting is better for SEO than, say,
"URL?page=webdevelopment&moreoptions=foo". True? Kind of hard to say -
Google's own search engine uses pretty long query strings.
If you're looking to keep the URL structure and file pulls the same, I
suggest taking the "<head></head>" stuff out of your included header file
and do dynamic headers/titles that tack on to the output before it is spewed
out to the browser. From what I can tell in your e-mail, that would be the
easiest thing to do.
So, if your code looks something like this (greatly simplified & no error
checking):
<?php
$foo = $_GET ['page'].'.html';
include('links.php');
include($foo);
include('footer.php');
?>
It would magically look like this:
<?php
$foo = $_GET ['page'];
$file_extension = '.html'
switch ($foo) {
case 'webdevelopment':
include some stuff, echo stuff, etc...
break;
...do other case stuff...
}
include('links.php');
$foo .= $file_extension;
include($foo);
include('footer.php');
?>
Again, I'd need to see your code to have a better idea here, but I hope that
helps. It's not the most in depth tutorial, since I'm sure you went through
the manual.
So, yeah, please feel free to send code. For the index.php file and any
included files for one HTML page to display. That would probably help keep
the guess work out of this. Yep. I'd say including code would be awesome.
--
Joe
From: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sudhakar
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:50 AM
To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: questions about using include() in php
i am doing seo for a website and this website uses a lot of php for
which i need suggestions. this is how the website is set up.
in the index.php file there is a flash banner at the top of the page
and the center part is another file which is called using include
("links.php") and the bottom part using include("footer.php")
the footer has links such as = webdevelopment software
development ... each of this has a query string=
http://website.com/index.php?page=webdevelopment and
http://website.com/index.php?page=software ... etc
this way every link in the website is calling index.php and a query
string is being passed and the index.php looks for the name
ex=webdevelopment and loads that particular page in the center
section of the website. the main purpose of doing this was to load
the flash file only 1 time and the rest of the time when the links
from the footer are clicked only the center part changes and the
flash file does not have to reload.
due to this the entire website is having only 1 page index.php
therefore using 1 <title> tag 1 meta description and 1 meta keywords
tag as the values of <title> and <meta> tags are being displayed from
index.php
however from a seo and sem perspective ideally there should be
different file name which means i can optimize the <title> and <meta>
tags for individual files.
please advice a best solution to get around this as i would like to
have different title and meta tag for individual pages like
webdevelopment.php software.php etc which i am presently not able to
due to include("")
any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks.
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