I installed this new articles system that is vbulletin based. Right now on my main site, I usually just copy my articles code into my main page. I update those articles daily and its becomming a hassle having to add the articles, then update the code on the sites main page so I can to somethin....


Instead of having to redo my PHP code everyday on my main site, I made a file for testing purposes and I think it might work, all this file does is call on the /forums/articles.php file Here is the only code in that file:

<?PHP
chdir("/home/muscleh/public_html/forums/");
require_once("forums/articles.php");
?>

The page I am talking about is located here: http://www.muscle-mustangs.com/aaa.php

I guess my question is, if I use the aaa.php file that only has those few lines of code because it calls an other file, and that other file calls on templates, will it hurt my Search engine rankins to use the aaa.php file as my main page instead of what I'm using now.

To SUM IT UP
Here is what I am using now:
http://www.muscle-mustangs.com/main.php
I want to switch to this (but rename the file of course :))
http://www.muscle-mustangs.com/aaa.php

The only difference is that the page I'm using now is totally HTML based, the page I want to switch it to is a page that just calls on another file

If I did change, when I added articles, my main page would also change, right now it doesnt Hope this isn't to confusing lol

Wouldn't the search engine also see the compiled version of aaa.php?

It will not hurt your search engine ranking at all. The search engine only sees what you see when you pull it up in your brownser at home. When you pull up a page in your broswer, it does not know if the page is made up of 3 lines of code or 3,000. It will only read what your hosting server gives to it, which is only HTML code. I hope that helps a little.