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Dynamic pages with variables

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:21 am
by keenlearner
Hello, i am new to php. BTW i am building php website for many pages assume to be 1000 pages with similar design, but different in title, meta description, body content, links. I want every page has its own static url such as http://example.com/url_1.php until http://www.example.com/url_1000.php and avoiding using the dynamic link such as http://www.example.com?url=1 for the sake of search engine friendliness. So this is what I had done using switch statement :

This is the main page(http://www.example.com/main.php) that contain all the 1000 variable values for the 1000 pages

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<?php
$url = (basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) ;

switch($url){
case "url_1.php" :
$title = " Page 1" ;
$content = " This is the first page with long text..................................." ;
$link = "http://www.example.com/url_1.php" ;
break;

// case goes until 1000

case "url_1000.php" : 
$title = " Page 1000 " ;
$content = " This is the 1000 or the last page with long text.................... " ;
$link = "http://www.example.com/url_1000.php" ;

}

?>

<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title ?></title>
</head>

<body>
<p><?php echo $content ?></p>
<a href=<?php echo $link ?> >Home</a>

</body>
</html>


This is one of the 1000 individual pages, http://www.example.com/url_1000.php

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<?php include("http://www.example.com/main.php") ?>
My question is, is there a better way than this ?
How fast will the website be served or php execute the switch statement from the beginning of the case until the last case which is the 1000 or the last if a visitors demand for the url http://www.example.com/url_1000 as shown above. Any clarification will be much appreciate, Thank you.

Re: Dynamic pages with variables

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:26 am
by volka
keenlearner wrote:and avoiding using the dynamic link such as http://www.example.com?url=1 for the sake of search engine friendliness.
Is there a relevant search engine that can't handle http://www.example.com?url=1 ?

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:39 am
by keenlearner
I had read some search engine articles, it just that search engine couldn't differentiate if there are the same. Statement from Google webmaster guidelines...
http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=35769

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:43 am
by feyd
All the major search engines crawl "dynamic" pages.

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:01 am
by keenlearner
If so, how can i goes to the dynamic link way ?
is it like below or any better way ?

<a href="http://www.example.com/main.php?title=p ... ntent=page one description here">Go to page one</a>

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:03 am
by feyd
Yes, that's the basic concept.. if I understand you correctly.

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:16 am
by ok

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:45 am
by keenlearner
Thank's to all of you....for the helpfulness