Html linking

[Phiberoptik]

Hey fella techies I am looking for some help on getting together a aggregator blog on blogger.com or any other blogging sites.

Apart from my own stories and pictures, I am also looking at providing links to other travelogues and linking to stories (html files) there. Most of the target sites do not support RSS. These are plain jane html sites.

The 'target' pages do not exactly host live content updated by the minute but rather manually updated once in a while. Here are some examples of the stories I could to link to -

http://www.geocities.com/jamiehide/travelogues.htm
http://www.bsmotoring.com/bsm/wcms/e...vel/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/bhuniahoo/index.html


I was wondering how to make links into these pages along with a small description of the content (the first few sentences perhaps).

I just need links+summary on my page and don't want the content itself to be displayed here to avoid copyright issues. I could set up links manually but I was wondering if there was a solution to gather new links as and when they are created.

Suggestions please guys?

 

[Raze664]

[url="url"]Text to be displayed[/url]

 

[Phiberoptik]

Cheers for that mate. Was wondering if there's batch html processor to do that cos there's a whole bunch of html files/urls i want to link to.

 

[Raze664]

Not sure about that, though I know Dreamweaver 8 comes in handy now and then.

 

[HTMLg33k]

i can do it.
just send me all the links, and what you want them to say.
e-mail it to me please, not PM.
sammyparo@gmail.com

 

[Menekali]

You could use some php to do that. That's not a bad idea, and php script that would write links in large amounts for you. I'll see if i can whip something up

 

[Menekali]

Here ya go, really simple and crude, but it does what you're looking for i think:

http://gauges.freehostia.com/url/url1.php

 

[Phiberoptik]

Cheers menekali

I just tried the page and the code generated is cool but when I tried to copy paste the code into a html writer, it resulted in this -

<a href="http://http://www.geocities.com/jamiehide/travelogues.htm">Enter Caption here</a>
<a href="http://http://www.bsmotoring.com/bsm/wcms/e...vel/index.html">Enter Caption here</a>
<a href="http://http://www.geocities.com/bhuniahoo/index.html">Enter Caption here</a>

Is it because of the spacing between the generated code? Seems like the "<" and ">" gets replaced with "<" and ">" when I try to paste it.

Here ya go, really simple and crude, but it does what you're looking for i think:

http://gauges.freehostia.com/url/url1.php

 

[Menekali]

What are you pasting it into? It seems that maybe your editor or IDE is replacing them with special ASCII charsets, they will actually parse properly if you were writing a webpage. Leave those in there the way they are, and save the file. Load the page up, and see if they appear properly.

 

[Menekali]

If that doesn't work properly, i'll see what i can do about fixing it. Should have used the htmlspecialchars function in php DOH!