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Need Advice...

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:33 pm
by yunkaa
Hi there,

I have a relatively popular site. If I change over to PHP content management, the .htm pages that are well linked and registered will be replaced on our pages with .php I will use a Mod to write the links as friendly. But, IDEALLY, I would prefer to use the OLD .htm links in the navigation sidebar for the old pages, and for the new pages, .php. Is this possible? Regarding the appearance of the pages, I'll keep my somewhat antiquated looking fonts. I find them easier to read, so the appearance of the PHP content management is less my concern. I'm more interested in the simplification that will come from the navigation and the modules. But, I don't want to give up the existence of my .htm links and pages. So, basically, my questions are: Can I use my .htm links in the navigation sidebars? Can I have those old pages called up in the main window?

Thanks so much,

Yun

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:21 pm
by lc
if you have access to the server software you can set .htm to be read as .php by the server, that way you can keep the old links and make them dynamic. You can basicly create any extention that way.

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:25 pm
by yunkaa
Dear lc,

Thanks for the reply! So, would I be able to do that on a shared server? Also, is there no way to use the .htm in the navigation sidebar? Also, do you think I could pull up the .htm pages in the mai window?

Sorry for so many questions! :p :)

Yun

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:25 pm
by m3mn0n
Well unless you control the server i doubt you could get a host to make the server read .htm as php files. My suggestion to you is if you have pages that are linked to your existing .htm pages, i would simply put an auto forward meta tag.

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=index.php?module=thenewpage">