Re: articles in database ????

Actually, there is no hard and fast rule for search engines in general, they will or they won't and it can change from week to week. One of best se tutorials around about web design and se's can be found at http;//northernwebs.com or northernweb.com One thing for sure, they do index html pages. ken Nick wrote: > > hi andreas and jeff, > > indexability by search engines was indeed oine of my great concerns....... > from what i understand andreas, you are suggesting i write a show.php script > which has the task of displaying articles given the information one has > given it. For exapmle if the query string was: > http://www.magazine.com/show.php?article=bill gates > bites,author="john%20doe" > show.php would then output html with the title > "bill gates bites by JohnDoe", which would then be indexable by search > engines....... is that what you meant ? (but in that case, how would you get > the url to reflect that change ? Meaning how do you get > http://www.magazine.com/billgatebites.php instead of the above > ?) > > cheers for all the responses, > > nick > > > Jeff Gannaway wrote: > > > > > > At 03:43 PM 7/17/00 +0100, Nick wrote: > > > >Basically, I was hesitating about whether to put stuff like the actual > > > article text (BLOLB/ TEXT) directly into the databse, or whether to put > it > > > in a seperate TXT or HTML file in a sepcified directory, bearing in mind > > > the articles would have to be searchable. > > > > > > Without knowing in advance the size and quantity of articles, my > > > inclination would be to avoid putting them inside the database for these > > > reasons: > > > > > > 1. You can write a text search function that would read the articles > for > > > occurrences of a string using the > > > strstr command. > > > > Right, but a database can search the articles as well. And probably do > > so faster. > > > > > 2. Assuming this is for a public site, there would be MANY benefits to > > > making your articles indexable by other search engines, namely more > traffic > > > to your site :) > > > > Not sure I follow this argument. Regardless of how you store the > > articles, they would be retrievable with a URL. If the concern is that > > some search engines don't index pages with query strings, you just > > quickly set up Apache w/ mod_rewrite such as: > > > > RewriteRule ^/articles/(.*)$ /articles/show.php?art=$1 [P] > > > > Which would convert the article information to a query string for your > > php script "show.php". > > > > Ciao, > > > > Andreas > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net