PHP includes

[hammink]

Hi, I originally posted this question in the javascript forum, but it turned into a PHP question and now it's an SEO question!

Here's the thread:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=134251

Basically, I'm just wondering if search engines will read the PHP includes I'm using. I'm putting all the navigation into this format (and some other keywords in the sidebars) so it is very important that the search engines be able to read it. I assume they can, but I want to be 100% before I commit to doing this across my site.

Thanks a lot for the help!

[Stephen Philbin]

PHP includes are transparent to all end users regardless of whether they're search engines or people. You can consider a file comprised of many PHP includes to be identical to a file which has all the same content already in it without the inclusions. You might make the files differently, but to the end user, it's all the same.