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Thursday, February 15
New Blogger = No archives!
 I sort of stumbled over the fact that the "new and improved" Blogger doesn't generate the archive index pages any more. Sort of blows chunks, if you ask me. If I wasn't such a lazy S.O.B., I'd use this as an excuse to migrate over to Wordpress, but migrating is a non-trivial amount of work, so here we are.Instead I hacked together a script to make a better archive index which will update itself automagically. You can see it here at Nosuch and at Leo's blog. I know it's tag soup, blah blah blah, but it works. If people care, I can make the script available. And for you Nosuch affiliates, you have this problem too now. Either tweak your templates (Blogger has new ways to present the archives, but I didn't look), or drop me a line and I'll set you up with the same script. Labels: sitenews '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |