How does search engine see the PHP website ?

[keenlearner]

I am very new to PHP as well as this PHPbuilder.com forum. BTW, if I write a php page in www.example.com/test.php with the code :

<?php include("http://www.example.com/home.php"); ?>

and the file http://www.example.com/home.php contain links :

<a href="http://example.com/about ">About</a>
<a hre="http://www.example.com/contactus">Contact us</a>

so when the search engine crawl the page www.example.com/test.php will it see the page code as

<?php include("http://www.example.com/home.php"); ?>

or......

<a href="http://example.com/about ">About</a>
<a hre="http://www.example.com/contactus">Contact us</a>

any explanation will be much appreciated, thank's in advance....

[Weedpacket]

The second one. There's nothing magical about the http clients that search engines use that is different from the clients (browsers) that anyone else uses. What they see of a site is the same thing that anyone else sees (they wouldn't be too useful, otherwise).

[MarkR]

The search engine, like any other user agent, only sees the HTML output from your page.

By the way, don't ever include a file by URL. Don't do it, it's unspeakably bad (Search for previous threads on the topic to see why).

Mark

[keenlearner]

Thank's to Mark and Weedpacket, both of your explanation has make me understand deeper about PHP... 🙂