Single PHP page with $_GET parameters, is it bad for SEO? [closed]

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Suppose I have a website for a company which I want to SEO.

Think of two scenarios:

1) There is only index.php, and for /about /contact sections I do it like this: index.php?what=about , index.php?what=contact etc. and I change the url using .htaccess, so the links become www.company.com/about , www.company.com/contact and every page has unique content of course.

2) Everything has their own page. i.e. :

• http
  • index.php
  • about.php
  • contact.php

I think that these two scenarios are the same, if they have the same content. I mean Google should not care about the server-end right? Or am I wrong? Please inform me before I go any further :)

Thanks !

Answer 1

Both scenarios are equally good, for SEO is it's important only that you have unique URLs.
Talking about technical side, for small projects it is not crucial weather you use index.php?what=contact or contact.php so choose whatever you prefer
For bigger projects it is more practical to use first approach, where the application sends all the client requests to one page (be it index.php) and then run the query.