The simple monthly archive
With Views, it's easy to do a 'Monthly Archive'. This view creates a block which will contain a list of months including the number of posts per month; if there are enough months it will contain a [more] link. Each link goes to a simple teaser view for that month.
Import this view:
<?php
$view = new stdClass();
$view->name = 'archive';
$view->description = 'Monthly Archive';
$view->access = array (
);
$view->view_args_php = '';
$view->page = TRUE;
$view->page_title = 'Monthly Archive';
$view->page_header = '';
$view->page_header_format = '1';
$view->page_footer = '';
$view->page_footer_format = '1';
$view->page_empty = '';
$view->page_empty_format = '1';
$view->page_type = 'teaser';
$view->url = 'archive';
$view->use_pager = TRUE;
$view->nodes_per_page = '10';
$view->block = TRUE;
$view->block_title = 'Archive';
$view->block_header = '';
$view->block_header_format = '1';
$view->block_footer = '';
$view->block_footer_format = '1';
$view->block_empty = '';
$view->block_empty_format = '1';
$view->block_type = 'list';
$view->nodes_per_block = '5';
$view->block_more = TRUE;
$view->block_use_page_header = FALSE;
$view->block_use_page_footer = FALSE;
$view->block_use_page_empty = FALSE;
$view->sort = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'created',
'sortorder' => 'DESC',
'options' => 'normal',
),
);
$view->argument = array (
array (
'type' => 'monthyear',
'argdefault' => '5',
'title' => '%1',
'options' => '',
'wildcard' => '',
'wildcard_substitution' => '',
),
);
$view->field = array (
array (
'tablename' => 'node',
'field' => 'title',
'label' => '',
'handler' => 'views_handler_field_nodelink',
'options' => 'link',
),
);
$view->filter = array (
);
$view->exposed_filter = array (
);
$view->requires = array(node);
$views[$view->name] = $view;
?>And use this code in your template.php (You may have to adjust this slightly if using a non-phptemplate theme). This theme will make the summary look more like a menu.
<?php
function phptemplate_views_summary_archive($view, $type, $level, $nodes, $args) {
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
$list .= '<li class="leaf">' . views_get_summary_link($view->argument[$level]['type'], $node, $view->real_url) . "</li>\n";
}
if ($list) {
return "<div class='menu'><ul>$list</ul></div>";
}
}
?>Some Notes:
-
To prevent that unpublished nodes or non-blog nodes are taken into account, the view should also filter on:
Node: Published = Yes
Node: Type = One of 'Blog entry' - Archive as a Drop Down List
We modified the function to draw the archive list as a drop down, and works sweet.
We still havent managed to find how to get the actual url that each entry should point to into the VALUE='' field ... so if anyone knows we would appreciate the addition to the page...
eg.
<OPTION VALUE='archive/200803'>
<?php
function phptemplate_views_summary_archive($view, $type, $level, $nodes, $args) {
$count = 1;
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
$list .= "<OPTION VALUE='".$count."'>". views_get_summary_link($view->argument[$level]['type'], $node, $view->real_url) . ': ' . $node->num_nodes . ' items';
$count += 1;
}
if ($list) {
return "<div class='menu'><FORM NAME='myform' onChange='followlink()'><SELECT NAME='mylist'>$list</SELECT></FORM></div>";
}
}
?>The Drupal 6 version of Views comes with a default view that achieves this functionality.
what about cck date years?
Hello,
I'm creating a site which needs to add older content about events that have occurred in the past years. I have cck date fields in my nodes and what I would like to see is a page that simply has links to each past year pointing to teaser pages with content from each of those years.
To clarify I don't want to sort by dates when nodes were created, but by dates when the event actually took (or will take) place which is indicated in the cck date field.
Any help? Much thanks!