changing html to php Options

[TLK]

Hello,

I am new to this forum and didn't look through it to see if this has already been discussed but I have built a number of sites over the past 2 years and when I began, I only knew html.... well this little miracle called php came to me one day and said it could really really REALLY cut down on my editing time by using included content! Much to my surprise, I came out of the dark and began a long lasting relationship with php and left html behind......... this is where it gets ugly:

I have 1/2 my sites in html and they were all individually created with way to much repeating content and I don't want to have to edit it all to make 1 change. I have also created a program for my sites that obviously requires php. I want to switch my html sites to php but am afraid of losing page rank.

My knowledge is really in graphics, not web design but I know enough to get the job done in a professional manner.

My second question relating to the topic is:

in all my sites, I have used index.html or php as a link back to the home page from let’s say the contact us page. Should I have been using the actual domain, <a href="http://www.mysite.com"> instead of <a href="index.php">? It only seems logical that this should be what I should have been doing, but I guess I never thought of it in this light....

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks

TLK



This post has been edited by TLK: Oct 12 2011, 02:16 PM

[pandy]

You can make the server parse HTML files for PHP, so you don't need to change extension and break links.

[TLK]

and how do I do that? sorry, not familar with that.

[pandy]

In your .htaccess file. From the top of my head (better look it up, it's been a while).

CODE

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

I've also seen AddHandler being used. I don't know if one has an advantage over the other. Hopefully someone else can chime in.

CODE

AddHandler application/x-httpd.php .php .html

[Christian J]

I've also seen AddHandler being used. I don't know if one has an advantage over the other. Hopefully someone else can chime in.

There's an old discussion here: http://forums.htmlhelp.com/index.php?showt...&hl=addtype --afraid I haven't learned anything new since then.

[Christian J]

My second question relating to the topic is:

in all my sites, I have used index.html or php as a link back to the home page from let’s say the contact us page. Should I have been using the actual domain, <a href="http://www.mysite.com"> instead of <a href="index.php">?

See http://webtips.dan.info/subdir.html#LinkHome