project: Monthly Blog Archive
Dynamically create a blog archive page with yearly and monthly separations, using php and MovableType archive-generation.
Thanks to Anil Dash's My Favorite View of My Blog for the formatting idea.
monthly_archive_linklist.tmp- (a MovableType template,) generates a php file, which stores to a variable (
$bigstring) an HTML list of links to all monthly archive pages. MovableType rebuilds this file whenever a new monthly archive page is created. monthly_archive_transform.php- (a php/html file,) includes the one MovableType generates (with
monthly_archive_linklist.tmp) to set$bigstring, which is parsed and reformatted.
<?php
$bigstring='<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly">
<a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a> (<$MTArchiveCount$>)<br />
</MTArchiveList>';
?>
<?php
include('/home/clevelb3/public_html/jeffschuler/archive/monthly_archive_linklist.php'); #sets $bigstring
$lines = explode("\n", $bigstring);
$curYear = 0;
print "<table><tr>\n";
foreach($lines as $string){
$pattern = '/\>(.*) (.*)\<\/a\>/';
$replacement = '\>$1\</a\>';
preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);
if($matches){
$monthAbbrevArray = str_split($matches[1], 3);
$monthAbbrev = $monthAbbrevArray[0];
$year = $matches[2];
if($year != $curYear){
if($curYear != 0){print "</td>\n";}
print "<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><strong>$year</strong></p>\n<p>";
$curYear = $year;
}
$pattern = '/\>.*\<\/a\>/';
$replacement = ">$monthAbbrev</a>";
$newstring = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
print "$newstring\n";
}
}
print "</tr></table>\n";
?>
The end result is shown in my blog archive by date page.