Hello,

My dad has an old-school .html store, and wants to convert this into a PHP store (that I will make) that looks EXACTLY the same.  I will use .htaccess mod rewrite to rewrite .html files -> .php, and grab the PHP file's contents from a MYSQL database.  This is so he can easily change his template and update his item listing.

Problem is, his store is really really really old and ranks #1 in Google and Yahoo in a bunch of keywords.  He is very fearful (and I am ) that he will have a small chance of losing these rankings.

So, my question: is masked .php rank the same as straight .html???  I know SEs can't tell the difference, but I'm afraid that the SELECT queries might mess it up, or something....  (If MYSQL is the problem I can also revert to XML or even .txt for storage, no reason to use MYSQL simply just I love it )

Anyways, any answers would be appreciated,

Michael

BTW, does anybody have Netscape 5 on hand please?  I really need it, my dad's hitcounter reported 15% of all users were using stupid Netscape 5!!!!!  Lmao I'd better start optimizing for this  

EDIT: Hmm.... I have read somewhere that there IS NO Netscape 5.......  Umm okay well is there like a netscape 5 rendering engine or something???  This hitcounter can't be lying

From what I recall it went from Netscape 4.x to 6.x and there was no 5.x. Can you let us know exactly what is being reported? Also, what software is reporting it as Netscape 5?

I read up somewhere that Netscape 5 was the first workings of Mozilla 1.0.... Is this true??  If so should I be looking for Mozilla 1.0?  I'll give you more details later on what exactly it says.


Thanks for your help guys!

Yeah thanks man exactly what I was gonna do.  Thanks for the input