mvander — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:05:31 +0000

Rewrite tool does this. Apache has support built in I believe. IIS rewrite can be added through 3rd party software.

-Mike

necrotic — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:52:03 +0000

They may have their webserver set to accept *.html and *.htm files as PHP files. In apache you modify the httpd.conf file to do that. Or, like Suzanne said they may use URL mapping.

tecdac — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:57:25 +0000

When I download my own site all I get is the template pages that the database fills when asked to. These other sites have files with actual static HTML pages.

I'm wondering if even though they allow users to enter data through a form if someone in the background is getting the form in their email and then going to the page and making the change manually. Is there a way through PHP or javascript to generate pages?

I promise not to download someone's site and then copy it!

Busy — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:45:21 +0000

when you download their site (which you shouldn't anyway) even if called from database your only seeing the end results not the page makeup

like this page your seeing now, it's a .php file which would have a few database queries and if/else statements among many others but if you look at the source you'd only see the html side of it, same as when you downloaded the sites files.

Suzanne — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:22:01 +0000

1. search engines follow query strings, but it's probably better to give them straight urls that people can remember.

2. URL Mapping is most likely what they are doing, not using static files. In this way, it appears to be static, but is from a database.