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.

[Richard M]

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.

Originally Posted by Richard M

Why not make it yourself?

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.

[Richard M]

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.

[j52c]

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

Originally Posted by j52c

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

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

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

[j52c]

Hi.


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