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How can I use PHP to automatically create an archive page with drop down menu linking to HTML files from a folder?

Asked by rapidpictures in Web Authoring, PHP and Databases, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Tags: PHP automatically archive auto menu

Hi,

I have already had assitance creating php code to display pages based on the date, using convetion 'day_month_year.html', e.g. 22_09_2009.html
(thanks Silhouette!)

see http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Authoring/Q_24746809.html

NB fitness instructor wishes to prepare daily / weekly fitness programmes in advance, so that a folder with a years worth of content can be pre uploaded, thus reducing admin.

I would like to take this further and have an archive page with a drop down menu which automatically populates with any existing files up to and including today's date, specifically any files whose name is later than today's date would not be displayed.
folder full of files
01_09_2009.html
11_09_2009.html
18_09_2009.html
29_09_2009.html
10_10_2009.html
22_10_2009.html
etc

So, given that today is the 22nd September 2009 all files up to including 18_09_2009.html will populate a dropdown menu.

This page is being intergrated in to a private members area, using phpAMA. php AMA has a main page with a dropdown menu for any pages uploaded to a specific folder.

I would like to emulate this on the archive page.

So I'm looking for php to search a folder for files named up to and including today's date, then present them as a dropdown menu on the archive page. The drop down navigation needs to be maintained when a page is selected.

Many thanks,

Owen

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             // code to auto load files based on name and date
<?
$folder = "weekly_content/";
$maxDays = 30;
$currDate = mktime();
$counter = 0;
do {
	$file = $folder .date("d_m_Y",$currDate). ".html";
	$currDate = strtotime("-1 day",$currDate);
}
while(!file_exists($file) && $counter++ < $maxDays);
 
	if($counter > $maxDays) {
	echo "error";
}
else {
	include($file);
}
?>
	
 
// the code used by phpAMA to find files in a folder that I need to modify to find files named up to today's date only. These become available in a dropdown menu (ideally omitting the '.html'). It would be great to have this as navigation added to the top of each page! Thanks.
 
<?php
$handle = opendir('content/');
$i=0;
while($item=readdir($handle))
{
 $the_files[$i]=$item;
 $i++;
}
sort ($the_files, SORT_STRING);
reset ($the_files);
 
while (list ($key, $item) = each ($the_files))
{
 if (((ereg(".html",$item)>0)||(ereg(".html",$item)>0)||(ereg(".php",$item)>0))AND($item!=INITIAL_PAGE)AND($item[0]!="_"))
 {
  $item_array=explode(".",$item);
  echo "<option value=\"$item\">$item_array[0]</option>";
 }
}
closedir($handle);
?>
           
         

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How can I use PHP to automatically create an archive page with drop down menu linking to HTML files from a folder?

Asked by rapidpictures in Web Authoring, PHP and Databases, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Tags: PHP automatically archive auto menu

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