Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

Specifically, getting some sort of site map, for a site consisting of mostly PHP pages.

The site was created with Dreamweaver, and although this has a sort of 'Site Map' function, it seems to miss some files. Add to that it only outputs an image file, and it's not proving very useful.

I've had a good google on this, but not finding much comfort.

Any useful suggestions would be much welcomed.

I've seen a few 'tools' that will effectively produce a site map by indexing the site, but I want to produce this from the files on my hard drive.

Re: Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

Why not make it yourself?
If you use a <ul> then put each item/page as a link between <li></li> tags then you can easily style the result using CSS.

Re: Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

Possibly because I'm inherently lazy. :)

I also prefer automated docs for longer term maintenance. It doesn't have to be HTML - but if it isn't it just needs to be better than what Dreamweaver manages. lol.

Re: Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

It's easy enough to make yourself but I suppose you could also make a PHP script to automatically read the webspace ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and upwards) then echo out the links.
Here's an example page I knocked up to show the CSS stuff you can do.
http://richard.phpfuture.net:8080/co...t_example.html

It needs Firefox or Mozilla to display properly due to heavy use of CSS 2.

Re: Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

Hi.

CoffeeCup Software have a freeware util for making sitemaps.
It will read all files including php files from your hard drive, not had chance to try it fully but it should do the job.
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oppps.

sorry , forgot the link:-

http://mercedes.coffeecup.com/CoffeeSiteMapper.exe

Re: Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

Cool toy. That's the kind of thing I was looking for, thanks.

(Tried it, and it seems to work very well.)

Re: Creating Website Documentation (Site Map)
 

Hi.


No problem, glad it is what you are looking for.