Google Spiders and .php files

[roseyman]

I have major concerns that are not being addressed completely regarding this issue. I still need more info on the subject to grasp how the spiders work so that I can efficiently build websites, which is my trade.

Is there someone who could recommend at Google or outside that I could call via telephone? That would be optimum for getting final results.

My main dilemma is this. My programmer wants to .php everything using templates so that a page of code would look like this:

For instance, one page called /property_search.php is coded as follows:

<?
require_once("./config/config.inc.php");

$_SESSION['smartyObj']->display('header.tpl');

$_SESSION['smartyObj']->display('search.tpl');

$_SESSION['smartyObj']->display('footer.tpl');
?>

which is three .tpl files that pull together to create the property_search.php page, and the "search.tpl" called out in the middle of the above code =

{include file='leftnav_advsearch.tpl'}
<>
<td width=563 valign="top" bgcolor="ffffff">
{include file='content_advsearch.tpl'}

which is two more files, which makes six files to create one page.

I am old school and would have created a simple html file, but I am ok with this as long as search engines are going to be able to access and read these files, BUT THAT is my main concern! Will Google see the entire source code (listed here: retailforlease.net/oflnew/property_search.php) or will it skip my page because of the .php complexity?

HELP!

Thanks,

[vistadivine.com]

I would just advice you to use HTML files over PHP files as Google advices you to!

Akash Kumar

[roseyman]

I have received other comments that state this:

The search engine bots see whatever you see when you view the source code of your html page. They generally don't "skip" .php complexity.

Most likely since you're using includes via PHP, then that's on the server side and your html page won't show any of the PHP includes.
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and:
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What does a PHP script do?

It builds a page of HTML and then sends it to the browser or bot.

They never see any of the PHP code.

They only see the HTML page that was built by that code.

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This seems to be a contradiction in what you are saying and what I have received from Google:

Please be assured that Google does index dynamically generated webpages, including .asp pages, .php pages, and pages with question marks in their URLs.

[vistadivine.com]

Ya you are right it does index them but doesn't advices to use them.

Akash

[Googlenaut]

nice tips Akash! thanks

[roseyman]

Not exactly full of information. I received much more info elsewhere on the topic. It seems that php is ok, but/and there is a lot more to it then I have learned here. I was looking for something more indepth.