It used to be cool (and SEO wise) to have .html instead of a dynamic extension.

Hello, PHP is used for scripting language while HTML is Markup language. you can not use only PHP, you must have to use HTML for PHP.

no any page without HTML is possible.

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Considering the original post, that you have been using .html extensions for a while. changing them to php WILL AFFECT your search engine rankings NEGATIVELY.

Other websites who are linking to your websites wont know about change from .html to .php

Agreed .php will offer much more flexibility and dynamism but remember to use 301 redirects to prevent loosing page ranks and link popularity.

Originally Posted by welljy

If you want to have a good ranking in search engine,you had better not change all the pages to php

Could you expand on that a little, please? I use the .php extensions almost exclusively because I want server side dynamic pages. Does google reject .php pages and dynamic scripting?

Does google reject .php pages and dynamic scripting?

No, it makes no difference to Google whatsoever. There is no basis to that statement.

it depends on what kind of php is on the page, or if a database is required like MYSQL etc...

Umm... The only point to using .php is if you have PHP markup within the file & need the server to parse it as such.. If I have a page that doesn't use php, then it stays as a .html.

If your page contains PHP you make the file type as .php
If your page has no PHP then make it end in .html or .htm

You can use .php files to serve a page with no PHP at all, but there would be no point in doing that.

It really depends... I personally don't think it matters but neat urls such as:

http://www.site.com/file/page/

Using Mod re-writes is ever more popular these days. I don't use this system I use .php

I use html/css/php on each page too

I too heard that an html page will be placed with a higher rank compared to the one with .php extension.

i think that some codes from other web languages will not work with a .php file i think some early java scrips wont and some old methods of inputting fvm files.

Originally Posted by !!underlink!!

i think that some codes from other web languages will not work with a .php file i think some early java scrips wont and some old methods of inputting fvm files.

I assume by java scrips you mean JavaScript. Front end code has nothing to do with what is happening on the server. All PHP processing (or any other server language processing), happens BEFORE JavaScript is even considered, therefore, there is no way for PHP to "interfere" with it.

Bottom line is, you can do anything with a .php file that you can with an .html file, except for run code from other server languages (assuming PHP is active).

This whole conversation is getting a bit tired.

thanks for all the advice. I'm comfortable with php, so I think it's the way to go before I build up the site. It seems it can do everything that a regular .html page can do and more. And if I'm correct, there don't seem to be any limitations when using .php pages compared to .html pages, just additional benefits.

I use Dreamweaver, so it's not too different to create the pages. I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me - it seems the main tasks will be changing the .html includes to .php type includes, and creating a bunch of 301 redirects. I would highly appreciate any other suggestions when switching a big site over like this.

I would like to PHP, Bcoz PHP have too many functionality and more user friendly. So i refer PHP than the HTML.

personally i would say php just because it more secure and you can to more with it than html

MY ADVISE IS

The speed of the server is very important, as it can only handle a certain quantity of customers at one time, it is VERY IMPORTANT to get that file sent out and done with as quickly as possible.


file.php will always take longer for the server to work than file.htm or file.html

This is because with the file.html file, it 'gets sent straight out, and sent quickly'

Whereas a file.php has got to be processed before it gets sent out as a HTML file.

There are times where and when a file.php is required to interact with the database, and you would always use a php file for them, but whenever possible I would use a file.html file

AS FOR HEADERS, I use a header.js file with a small function head(a) in it. Just under the body tag, I have head('Form page <br> New members application').

This method of header has the benefit of
+The whole script, and the whole data of the head, stayes in the browser, and thus saves a lot on download bandwidth.
+As I only need one head.js and one head.css file, it is always very easy to change the header in each and every page.

The speed of the server is very important, as it can only handle a certain quantity of customers at one time, it is VERY IMPORTANT to get that file sent out and done with as quickly as possible.

AS FOR HEADERS, I use a header.js file with a small function head(a) in it. Just under the body tag, I have head('Form page <br> New members application').

I think this is bad advice. Most of the slowness of a website is caused on the client side, not the server side. This has been proven by the folks at Yslow, which has grown into a standard of why websites perform slowly. PHP parsing is much faster than JavaScript parsing, and besides, is much more powerful, since it can access databases and do other things that JavaScript simply is not allowed to do. Also, content that is generated by JS is purposely ignored by search engines, so it will not count for your page content. This is not always a bad thing, but it is not usually what is desired.

Wordpress is good for those who aren't the most skilled in web design, but it also leads to a bunch of site with 3-10 Google ads and nothing but reposted content you can see anywhere and everywhere. But anyways, I think Joomla is a bit better for what monkfunk is talking about than Wordpress. So many more features. A little bit more of a learning curve though.

PHP is dynamic and html is static. For client side management you can use javascript.

PHP runs on sever side. Server reads .php file extract the php codes or scripts.