[pmwiki-users] Looking for advise on how to create a blog archive

[Jan Erik Moström]

I would like to ask a few questions of how to build a blog, I've think
I've managed to figure out most of the things but I would like to have
some advise of how to create an archive page (or pages).

First some background: I've currently implemented the blog with one
entry per page, each page is named according to this format:

    Blog.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

for example

    Blog.20080506235832s

Each page has the following format

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(:title Some clever title :)
(:bdate:2008-05-06 23:58:32:)
(:btags:one|two|three:)

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer mi
dui, varius non, fermentum eget, adipiscing in, odio. Cum
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I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to create some archive
pages for a blog. I want to have a page with a listing similar to this
(but I'm open for other suggestions):

2008
    06 - June
    05 - May
    04 - April
    02 - February
    01 - January

2007
    12 - December
    11 - November
    ...

Note that there is no listing for March 2008 since there were no entries
made during that month.Each entry would link to a page that contained
the entries for that month. A month listing would look like this

2008-05 May
    2008-05-01 11:56    kasjh dsaoij dasjd dsajdsjkds jdks
    2008-05-01 15:23    jlkj fdsiojrew jdsalj dasljd alskdjas dsalj
    ...
    2008-05-06 23.58    Some clever title
    2008-05-07 12:13    daslj dsaöljd sdakj dsalkdj asdlkj


I've been trying to figure out how I should create these archive
listings. I could probably come up with some way of creating static
pages, that is I create the main index page manually and then create
an archive page for each month using pagelists for creating the actual
listing. But it would be *much* nicer if everything was created
dynamically ... unfortunately I don't have an idea if this is possible
and if it's practical (and efficient) to do it this way.

I would appreciate any comments/suggestions you have.

                jem
-- 
Jan Erik Moström, www.mostrom.pp.se