[zellerman]

I know enough perl to be dangerous and I'm now looking at learning PHP to do some pretty tame page generation. Most of the pages on my site now are "hard" html pages. A few are cgi (perl) generated. (But most of my "hard" pages are created programatically from a template and info from a product database.) Basically I'm trying to move page generation from a batch process on my local machine to script generated on the server.)

Can anyone tell me (or point to a resource) if there are any dis-advantages to generating pages on the fly vs. plain html (hard pages)??

I'm thinking marketing/search engine issues...

Will php generated pages rank any worse than plain html, index differently, etc. etc. Are there any issues at all? I have to think not since most all html is now generated on the fly....???

Comments and Where I can learn more? Please.

[dennispopel]

Hello,

For the end user and SE the static and dynamic pages are all the same. In fact, you can even tupe up web server to serve html files thru PHP. The only advantage of batch generating pages is the performance gain (suitable for millions hits/day). It is used if the pages will never change, but they expose you to maintenance problems connected to possible redesign difficulties etc.

If you use a good framework that has caching API then you can save server CPU if you use caching of dynamic page (both on the client and server sides).

[zellerman]

Thanks for replying. I've also found some interesting sites discussing the issues but I always enjoy comments form discussion.

Thanks Again.