SE question
 

ok all you search engine gurus, I've got a question.

If I have a site that is built using PHP that generates pages by getting text from a MySQL database, do search engines see this as a regular HTML page?

yep but im not sure how its weighted compared to html, but it will get spidered

Nice. I thought so. Although I've read it is bad to have URLs with any "?" or "&" in them, but that is ok, I don't need to have that.

No problem with Google or Yahoo with "?" or "&" in the urls as far as i am aware.

sorry i missed my 9am lesson with wiredguy this morning ;)

It's a long weekend, I need a break as well.
WG

They will probably see some of it.. but the best way to make sure that you can actually be fully seen by the engines is to perform a mod rewrite and this will then present your php generated pages as html pages to the engines.

It does take a lot of work, but it's worth it.

http://www.modrewrite.com/

Helpful link, thanks.

Get some server guy to make .html/htm be treated (by your server) as .php.

That'll work :)

It's just me.. but I still prefer cgi on pages and delivery to browsers/robots "clean" and without any ? and & stuff....

Tho php like most stuff.. has a place - depending :-)

Yup, mod_rewrite is a good thing.. you can also easily get rid of the ? by making the path like search.php/search-terms and then exploding it
But as was mentioned, major search engines will parse the & and ?'s