General: Alphabetical List of Posts

One thing sorely missing from the features of Google's Blogger is an option to list all the posts of a blog in alphabetical order. That's something essential for a film review blog like mine, in which the posts' titles are the names of films. Yesterday my friend Matt coded this solution for me in Javascript. You can see the results by clicking on the link at the top of this page. (The link is only visible if you are reading the blog on a computer).

I've included the code below. If you wish to use it, copy and paste it into the HTML section of a standalone page.

If you use this code, please leave a comment saying thanks and a link to your blog.

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Addendum on 8th May, 2016

Important note: The introduction of mandatory HTTPs support has stopped the code working. I have made a correction to make it work again. If you copied the code before today you need to copy it again.

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Addendum on 26th November, 2015

Important note: Yesterday Google made a change which stopped the code working. I have made a correction to make it work again. If you copied the code before today you need to copy it again.

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<div>
<ul id="postList12"></ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var startIndex = 1;
var maxResults = 100;
var allResults = [];
function sendQuery12()
{
   var scpt = document.createElement("script");
   scpt.src = "/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json&callback=processPostList12&start-index=" + startIndex + "&max-results=" + maxResults;
   document.body.appendChild(scpt);
}

function printArrayResults(root)
{ 
   //Sort Alphebetically
   allResults.sort(function(a, b){
        var a_string = a.children[0].textContent ;
        var b_string = b.children[0].textContent ;

 if(a_string < b_string) return -1;
 if(a_string > b_string) return 1;
 return 0;
   })

   var elmt = document.getElementById("postList12");
    for (index = 0; index < allResults.length; index++) {
         elmt.appendChild(allResults[index]);
    }
}

function processPostList12(root)
{   
  var elmt = document.getElementById("postList12");
   if (!elmt)
      return;

   var feed = root.feed;

   if (feed.entry.length > 0)
   {
      for (var i = 0; i < feed.entry.length; i++)
      {
         var entry = feed.entry[i];
         var title = entry.title.$t;
         var date = entry.published.$t
  
         for (var j = 0; j < entry.link.length; j++)
         {
            if (entry.link[j].rel == "alternate")
            {
               var url = entry.link[j].href;
               if (url && url.length > 0 && title && title.length > 0)
               {
                  var liE = document.createElement("li");
                  var a1E = document.createElement("a");
                  a1E.href = url;
                  a1E.textContent = title + " (" + date.substr(0,10) + ")";
                  liE.appendChild(a1E);
                  //elmt.appendChild(liE);
                  allResults.push(liE);
               }
               break;
            }
         }
      }
      if (feed.entry.length >= maxResults)
      {
         startIndex += maxResults;
         sendQuery12();
      } else {
         printArrayResults();
      }
   }
}
sendQuery12();
</script>