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4 Aug 2002
In the Movable Type support forums I’ve seen requests for the ability to group archives by date. Most of the time, people want to have an archive index that looks something like:
2002 August July June May April March February January2001
December November October September August July June May April March February January
There have been a few people that have posted solutions using PHP or JavaScript, but I thought it would be nice to do this straight out of Movable Type.
Thus the Archive Date Header plugin was born.
Tim Appnel has taken over the maintenance and support of this plugin as of Oct 2004.
You can get this plugin by downloading ArchiveDateHeader.zip
Unzip ArchiveDateHeader.zip and connect to your FTP server and open the directory where you have Movable Type installed.
Create a directory there called plugins if there isn’t one already and copy ArchiveDateHeader.pl to the plugins directory.
Once you’ve installed the plugin you will have a new container tag, MTArchiveDateHeader. The tag only works within an MTArchiveList container tag, and if you try and use it elsewhere, you’ll receive an error.
If you use monthly archives, the contents of this container will only be printed when a new year starts.
If you use weekly archives, the contents of this container will only be printed when a new month starts.
If you use another sort of archive, the contents of this tag won’t be printed at all.
Here’s an example:
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly"> <MTArchiveDateHeader> <p><b><MTArchiveDate format="%Y"></b></p> </MTArchiveDateHeader> <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><MTArchiveDate format="%B"></a> </MTArchiveList>
Like our other freeware, this plugin is released under the open-source MIT License. In plain English, that means you can do whatever you want with the software, including modifying it, selling it, or eating it, but we’re not responsible for anything that goes wrong.
It's nice. But I'd like to build a nested set of list elements. I can kick off a list with a *ul* in *MTArchiveDateHeader*, but without *MTArchiveDateFooter* I can't close it again with its */ul* tag.
Is there anyway I can use both? so if I display my entries by weeks (which I do) it can then display... 2003 January 01/01/03-07/01/03 08/01/03-etc... Feburary 03/02/03-
Nevermind I'm being slighty stupid... I've worked out a way of doing more or less the same thing
This is a great little plugin, just what I've been looking for. But....is there a way to list only a single year?
There's no way to do that with the plugin or with the built-in MT template tags.
How can I reverse the months? i.e. 2002 jan feb mar... 2001 jan mar apr...
What you'd need is a way of reversing the archive sort order. I don't MT can do that natively, but you might find a plugin that does it if you hunt around at http://mt-plugins.org
This is just what I've been looking for. Thanks for putting the time in on this plugin.
Found a bug. If the archive_type="Weekly", then a new header is generated for each archive entry. Here's the offending code: } elsif ($at eq "Weekly"){ $this_date = substr $ts, 5, 6; This extracts the 6-character substring starting at zero-based offset 5. Unforunately, this captures the 2nd digit of the month, the day, and part of the zero-padding. So, it's unique for each entry. These lines should read: } elsif ($at eq "Weekly"){ $this_date = substr $ts, 4, 2; Grab the 2 characters (the month) at zero-based offset 4. The datestamp from $ts is chars 0-3 (year), 4-5 (month), and 6-7 (day).
If you want to handle Daily archives with per-month headers as well, the following if..elsif..else statement will do it nicely: if ($at eq "Monthly") { $this_date = substr $ts, 0, 4; } elsif ($at eq "Weekly"){ $this_date = substr $ts, 4, 2; } elsif ($at eq "Daily"){ $this_date = substr $ts, 4, 2; } else { return ''; }
Forgot to thank you so.. Thanks :)
To generate nested lists of archives you can use this plugin together with Brad Choate's MTPerlScript plugin, with your template something like this: ----- <ul> <MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly"> <MTArchiveDateHeader> <li><$MTArchiveDate format="%Y"$> <ul> </MTArchiveDateHeader> <li><$MTArchiveDate format="%B"$></li> <MTPerlScript> $a = '<MTArchivePrevious><$MTArchiveDate format="%Y"></MTArchivePrevious$>'; $b = '<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y"$>'; if ($a ne $b) {print "</ul></li>"}; </MTPerlScript> </MTArchiveList> </ul> ----- Example of output: <ul> <li>2003 <ul> <li>February</li> <li>January</li> </ul> </li> <li>2002 <ul> <li>December</li> <li>November</li> <li>October</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Excerpt: しました。 Archive Date Header Pluginを入れて。 ソースも書いてあるので、そちらを参考に。...
Excerpt: In the Movable Type support forums I’ve seen requests for the ability to group archives by date. Most of the time, people want to have an archive index. There have been a few people that have posted solutions using PHP...
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tamaracks
October 6, 2002 12:27 AM
I'd like to see a tag for better formatting possibilities. For instance, I'd like to have the year, followed by the months as an unnumbered list, but there is no way to add a closing tag after the months with this plugin.