Php vs Html

Confused

[carpunky]

Hiya,

Confused as what is best to use.

Php seems easy because all you have to do is edit 1 include file to change your header , footer etc on every page. That saves alot of time.

Html I hear is preferred by search engines and I am more familiar with this type of language.

Thanks

Jeff

[DanA]

Php is followed by most search engines.
You can have a site map (.html) with the pages you want to be indexed by the rest of the search engines.

[jdMorgan]

Jeff,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

The main point of PHP is to easily and automatically create HTML pages on-the-fly. In addition, you can read and manipulate databases by using PHP's "hooks" to MySQL.

PHP and HTML are technologies -- or languages, if you prefer. Search engines don't much care what you call your pages, or what file extensions you use. The vast majority of .php-named "pages" are scripts that output HTML.

Jim