Lloyd Wood - more of a blog. less of a life.

To beat a dead horse.

In trying to improve this Movable Type implementation, I followed the spirit of these zlog instructions to implement YEAR/MO/name.html urls.

I wound up adding:
<$MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m"$>/<MTIfEmpty var="EntryKeywords"><$MTEntryTitle dirify="1"$><MTIfNotEmpty var="EntryKeywords"><$MTEntryKeywords$>.html
to the individual archive template, while ignoring zlog's recommended php-specific directives. Seems the IfEmpty plugin syntax has changed somewhat now it's built-in; the close tags weren't parsed.

The result is less than perfect; I'm copying over the YEAR_MO.html summaries to YEAR/MO/index.html after rebuilds manually via a script to make a browseable directory structure, the use of underline instead of hyphen and stripping of all other punctuation from entry filenames irritates, and I still have to do something about the default 'Convert Line Breaks' setting on that Text Formatting popup when editing.

But it's an improvement over the default numerical entry. I no longer long to use the Dead Horse software that Danny wrote for Oblomovka, which achieves the same visible structure using rather more url rewrites.