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To prevent that unpublished nodes or non-blog nodes are taken into account, the view should also filter on: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.