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Silver007A
msg:4270386 | 2:08 am on Feb 22, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Hi,
If I have a blog and want the titles of my latest 5 posts to appear automatically in a list on my home page, is there a way to do it with basic html/css? or does it need a script?
I'm looking for a way to have the latest 5 posts to appear without having to create the link and input the name every time.
Thanks
:-)
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g1smd
msg:4270479 | 8:58 am on Feb 22, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Yes, a few lines of PHP and mySQL code can pull the titles of the latest 5 entries from the database and show them in a box.
If it is popular blog software, it is likely someone has already written just such an extension.
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Silver007A
msg:4270513 | 11:21 am on Feb 22, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the reply.
It is just a plain html css site. I normally use Joomla, but not this time :-) Any ideas on a bit of script linked with a txt file maybe?
Thanks
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g1smd
msg:4270639 | 5:26 pm on Feb 22, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Are you saying the blog uses flat files, and not a database?
If so, then you could:
- set the server configuration so that .html files are parsed for PHP content,
- use a PHP include to "include" a file which will contain the list of links.
In future you'll only need to alter that file once to change all links on the site.
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