jperezmt

I'm new at programming and I just want to know if this is even possible.

I'd like to create a dynamic PHP website that produces Static Pages for Search Engines.

For example if I create an article page that uses MySQL to store the data. When ever I post a new article, I'd like it to create a new static html page. This would populate the site with static pages full of content for search engines. But I would still be able to edit / delete / comment etc through a backend tool that changes values in the Table and the changes are reflected on each static page.

Is it possible to do this? Hope it's not to confusing.

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hasan_889

I guess you meant to say ... your article data will come from database but output page will have html extension ... so it will look like it's a static page.

Yes - you can do that. if you use mod_rewrite module to rewrite your url ... you can manage to do that.

if you go to my website ... http://xpert.tvbusinesslounge.com ... you will find all pages have .html extension ... yet every thing is coming from database and i'm using .php to display the data.

here is nice tuitorial on rewrite url - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/urls/


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jumpenjuhosaphat

You could do it the way that Hasan mentioned, or you could also produce an html file that is actually a static page, like any html page. It's actually quite simple. You will need to learn how to create a file, and how to write to that file using PHP. Really quite simple. You could also serve up PHP from a file with an extension of .html, or any extension for that matter.

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hasan_889

are you saying that PHP code will be executed in a html extension file? Nope that's not possible - php code executes only with php extension file ... otherwise compiler cannot differentiate between php code and text.

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Bagi Zoltán

Hasan, it is possible. You may use whatever you want as file extension until you let the apache webserver know that it sould be executed as php script. For instance if you want to use html file extension for your php scrip simply paste this code into the .htaccess file and will do the job.

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I think use mod re write method that is easy. I have used the second method mean writing dynamic generated file into html using script. This only helps if you want to save database connections. I only did because there are 8000 unique vistiors on one of website and hosting company put some limit on database connection. As a result it shows erro messages when users were more than that limit.

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jperezmt

To All,

Will the search engines still be able to crawl the pages and index them as individual html pages if I use the mod_rewrite???

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Your intention is to create static pages dynamically or have search engine friendly URLs?

Creating static pages from dynamic data (ie, generating html pages by a PHP script and writing it to the file system) is a lengthy process, and have some limitations(you can not greet avisitor by his name!) but is a great option to reduce server load. Some high end CMS (like reddot, worth millions) use the same technique. If you are serving millions of pages, such a technique will reduce your server load to just a small fraction - may be even less than 10% - of serving dynamic pages all the time.

mod_rewite and other .htacess/ apache config. techniques have an equal effect as far as SEO is concerned. if server load is not your criteria, you just need to do mod_rewrite.

But be warned that having static lookign URLs doesnt help much. It used to have a good effect, now a days serach engines can index dynamic pages as well. having all static pages doesnt guarantee an inclusion of all pages either.

Still many people prefer static looking pages. If you really want them, goahead

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tjfalabama

For me the concern is server load on cheap hosting packages. I came across this site looking for this issue. If that is the case would caching the pages solve the issue. I recently started using WordPress and installed the caching plugin. Wouldn't this in effect bring the server load down significantly in a high load situation? Or is it still using much more resources than a static .html?

mediacurse

mod_rewrite - not sure how useful it is but at least it makes things look pretty