Dynamic pages without with directory structure instead of parameters

[falagar]

Sorry for the confusing thread title, I wasn't sure how to call this.

This is my issue:

I design most of my sites with a single index.php file that takes
parameters to decide which pages to include: something like
www.blabla.com/index.php?dir=a&page=b which will include some file in
say ./a/b.html, but will have all the headers and footers that are
defined in index.php.

It could also work that way to have a b.php file in the ./a directory
that would include headers and footers but then I'd have to include
those headers in every single page I write which seems like too much
overhead.

I was fine with the way I did it but then I read that this is not good
practice, search engines don't like sites with parameters they rather
want the www.blabla.com/a/b.php form.

Is there a way to get this done nicely? How do professional sites solve
this?

Any comments or links about that topic are highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Mike

[Joshie Surber]

Re: Dynamic pages without with directory structure instead of parameters

Yeah, use .htaccess. Google for ".htaccess generator and you will find
several tools that will help you do this.

falagar wrote:

Sorry for the confusing thread title, I wasn't sure how to call this.
>
This is my issue:
>
I design most of my sites with a single index.php file that takes
parameters to decide which pages to include: something like
www.blabla.com/index.php?dir=a&page=b which will include some file in
say ./a/b.html, but will have all the headers and footers that are
defined in index.php.
>
It could also work that way to have a b.php file in the ./a directory
that would include headers and footers but then I'd have to include
those headers in every single page I write which seems like too much
overhead.
>
I was fine with the way I did it but then I read that this is not good
practice, search engines don't like sites with parameters they rather
want the www.blabla.com/a/b.php form.
>
Is there a way to get this done nicely? How do professional sites solve
this?
>
Any comments or links about that topic are highly appreciated.
>
Thanks.
>
Mike