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There has been a lot of discussion around this, if you do a search for [dynamic site] or [dynamic url] you should find plenty.
Onya
Woz
I run a website which has a page for each individual category. There are lots of categories, and all are PHP, with a select statement, built into the page - though there is only 1 paramter!
I use a makestatic script which is a php script, and runs from the browser. it "indexes" the folder with all my dynamic php pages in, and writes a .sh (shell) script.
This shell script when run, takes the php pages, and copies them into a static html page.
If you have ssh/telnet acces like i do, you can set it up on cron (mine is set to run every hour as database is being updated quite often).
if you dont have access to cron, you can still run it from a basic ssh/telnet command.
The script was used by a client who has a very very large dynamic site, and had to be able to have static html pages to send out on CD-ROM.
I use the script because of the large volume of pages on the site.
If you don't have that many pages. you can use the following UNIX command:
lynx -source [dynamic.yourdomain.com...] > /www/where/you/want/it/page.html
This should all be on one line! change the dynamic bit to wherever yuor dynamic pages are (url) and the second bit to the REAL ROOT PATH of where you want them to go.
This will take a "snapshot" of page.php and copy it to page.html...makes it static.
If your pages aren't changing that often, you could write your own .sh script, using the example code above, without the makestatic php script.
Just make sure that every page you wnat converting is on a line of its own, and make sure that it doesnt put the code onto 2 lines!
don't know how this would work with paramters being passed thorugh the url - never tried it ;)
let me know if this helps,
Will.
The real problem lies with URIs that contain (too many) parameter in their query string. And by no means does having a query string is sufficient evidence that the page identified by that URI will be generated dynamically.
I do admit that it is usually. But this is just a possibility or a question of probability. Anything derived from that will only express a probablity itself.
To answer your questions:
Should important pages be made static
Not at all. There is no need to do that for the reasons explained above.
can engines successfuly crawl d/base driven sites
As long as the documents that are served to the spider contain spiderable links engines crawl d/base driven sites just like any other sites.
I have a new database driven site in the tourism industry that was spidered by GoogleBot as soon as it went online. This site is totally database driven, is XHTML compliant and uses nice looking URIs without any query strings.
Andreas
This is only possible if the files are static html, as most home computeres cannot display php pages properly - especially when there is a database being used aswell!
The script works excellently for me, google picked it up in a matter of days, and its ranking well!
Regards,
William
There is, however, nothing that should prevent you from Putting a dynamic PHP/MySQL site on a cd-rom [webmasterworld.com].
Andreas
The way I built my site, was that the paramteres were actually on the page (in the coding) - not in the URL.
I never tried making pages static which have parameteres in the url's.
Though the makestatic script has the provision for passing parameters when it makes the static page.
Though as I said, Ive never tried it - so I dont know how well it would work.
Though the system has dramatically reduced the load on the server! :)
Regards.
For example.. the title on the index page might be 'find widgets' .. then on each of the dynamic pages it says 'find widgets in australia' or 'find widgets in usa' etc.. one for each country that widgets are available (100 or so)
In this way, even though I haven't been ranking high yet on my prime keywords (site is still young), I have been getting a lot of hits from people searching for more specific pages. I get some pretty obscure ones, like 'find slovak widgets' :-) Seems to me far easier than doing the same thing on a static site!
So take advantage of your dynamic pages and make your header tags dynamic as well!
widgets for in australia
widgets in ireland
.
.Then how does you software generate 100 php or coldfusion pages?
and how are they all linked, because if they are not linked, then how can the s/e spider them all?
Confused.
I've replied to this one in your other post, so check there for more code.
All links work just like normal dynamic links.. ie..
<a href="country.cfm?country=#country#">
.. you then use the variable "url.country" to query the database in your country.cfm page.. ie..
<CFQUERY DATASOURCE="#1#" NAME="country">
SELECT * FROM
Countries
WHERE Country = '#url.country#'
</CFQUERY>
Output that on your page in whatever way you like..but the header tags can either be done in the way i mentioned in your other post.. or if you don't use includes.. you could just make a title like so:
<CFOUTPUT>
<title>widget in #country#</title>
</CFOUTPUT>
There is no need to do that manually, as all the information you need is already in your database.
Good luck with it.
