PHP generated page and search engine

php and the search engines

[secretr]

Hi all!
At that time my site is just a index.php, a few include files and a txt file. It's some kind of portal with categories and subcategories.All of the categories,subcategories and links are generated from that txt file.For example:
index.php?main=sport&sub=baseball&page=1
search into my txt file the line where category is a sport,and subcategory is a baseball and otputs the other info (the link and the comment).
I have two arrays -one with the categories and the other with the lines in my txt file - the subcategories, links and comments .In that way I can easy change and update the categories.My question is how search engine friendly is that.
Best Regards

[SubZeroGTS]

as long as your main page has 2 or less variables (?a=1&b=2) and it links to other pages with 2 or less variables.

[andreasfriedrich]

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Be sure to read Marcia`s WebmasterWorld Welcome and Guide to the Basics [webmasterworld.com] post.

Have a look at this thread Google not listing dynamic pages with long strings? [webmasterworld.com] for reasons why to eliminate your query strings.

You probably keep your house or appartment closed to the general public and make it accessable only by a public interface, i.e. the door. The same might be a good idea for your website as well. It is not hard to do and you may change the inner workings of your site whenever you want without any negative aspects on the outside.

Andreas

[secretr]

My main page links to itself with 3 variables, but thanks for the help at all.Now I'm not happy - sometimes it's better to be entirely in the dark :)
And what will be happening if I write some kind of search php (that will search my txt data) with less than 3 variables and if I link it from the main again with 2 variables for example.I think it will work or...?