Hi there,

would it really be impossible / that hard to provide a way how one could build 'static' pages while being able to make use of the features of the php frontend?

As I read from some other posts there are quite a few people doing the same as me at the moment: On a mostly php driven site they use Links to build static pages with .php extension so that one can use includes and other php functionalities on their links pages. The drawback with that is that the dynamic pages (add, rate etc.) are all cgi and the php code can't be used with that. So you have a lot to do working around this.

I do so for over a year now and I have a lot of my links pages listed as no. 1 rankings in many search engines.
Using the current 'dynamic' approach with the php frontend (i.e. /cgi-bin/page.php) would really be of no good regarding not only the search engine rankings but also many users' bookmarks.

When the php frontend was announced I really hoped that it would work like the cgi version does:

• allow for building 'static' pages with .php extensions and address tags and globals in a php way - and thereby preserving my well established directory structure
• having 'add.php', 'rate.php' and so on scripts as pendants for 'add.cgi', 'rate.cgi' etc.
  

As it seems for now I am stuck with the cgi way of having a LinksSQL site...

So what do you think about that?
Is there really no other way to make the php frontend work than the page.php approach?


Andreas
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