Creating Archive of Previous Articles

Hi,

In CMS just make sure that for each article you have a field for the year and a field for the month. Once this information is in the database, we can access the information any way we like.

The way you want users to be able to access your articles is a design issue. You can set it up whichever way you like best.

For ease of use, I'd suggest displaying a link to each archived article, sorted by year, and then month. Then at the top of the page, you can give the user an option of limiting the search to a specific year and month. But this is just the way I would do it, you can set it however you like.

Hope this helps.

How do I sort by year and by month? Also, how can I give the user an option to limit the search to a specific year and month? Can you tell me where I can do it and can you give an example of the type of coding I would use, or at least point me in the right direction.

Hi,

The easiest way to proceed would be to first create an Article section in your CMS and enter in a couple of articles so we have something to work with.

After that, go to the code generator and generate some viewer code. This will give us a place to start.

I'll do that. I'll create field names including date, title, and content. This way i can input the exact year and month the article was published, along with the title of the article, and the article content itself. That should do it, right. Then I can sort by year and month, and go from there.