Autoupdating dropdown.txt

[TTE]

Is it possible to autoupdate your dropdown.txt file?

My goal is to have an archives page that lists the title of the comic instead of just dates through the calendar. I could easily do this manually through updating the dropdown.txt and then using the ***story_archive*** tag on my archives page, but it wouldn't automatically change as if I were using the calendar tags.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

[Moder]

but then how would comicgenesis know the title you want each comic to have?

[C.w.]

I have an archive like that.

Unfortunately, i have to manually update it. I don't think there's a way for comicgenesis to automatically do it. (Although if i am wrong that is awesome.)

What i did was write a hunk of javascript to build it for me. Basically, i update a file with the name i want, and the date i uploaded it on, and it generates all the tedious bits, which i then copy and paste.

You can check it out here at the bottom of the page, but it's a big mess. If you wind up using it i'll clean it up a bit.

[Moder]

mm..

But isint the work you have updating that file you mentioned the same as the work to update the normal html page (the first link in your post)?

Im probably not getting it. Im not much of an html/javascript guy.. :p

[C.w.]

If you just use it to make an archive, pretty much all it does is take out the tedious bits of writing the html.

So, i write 'Mr. Snugglegums', and '20040417' and it writes:

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<li>
<a href="/d/20060417.html" id="h20060417">
Mr. Snugglegums.
</a>
</li>

Which isn't a whole lot of difference really. Where it becomes nice is if you have to generate some whole different jib jab - like his dropdown. It could do both in one fell swoop.

You can also use it to pull nifty tricks like making a link to a comic at random, and other junk like that. That was the main reason i wrote the thing in the first place - the autogenerating archive was just a nice extra.

Edit - i had some spare time, so i cleaned an posted said scripts at http://cwcomics.comicgenesis.com/genera ... cript.html - if your have troubles give me a shout.