From 39c3ea3a06f12d2e156d4959278bee7b093494da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Lardner <me@alexlardner.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 21:21:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add page navigation

---
 README.md                                   |  1 -
 blahblah/bbdb.py                            |  2 +-
 blahblah/render.py                          | 55 +++++++++++++++++----
 blahblah/templates/roll_template.html.jinja |  3 ++
 4 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ea5efa2..a26889c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,6 +11,5 @@ This is a very early form of the software, heavily tailored to my site, just to
 - More generic templating options, provide CSS
 - Expand content generation to entire site using markdown, templating, and CSS
 - CSS configuration tool
-- Actually be able to navigate past one page (seriously, this thing barely works yet)
 - Navigation by dates
 
diff --git a/blahblah/bbdb.py b/blahblah/bbdb.py
index d881ee6..4a92add 100644
--- a/blahblah/bbdb.py
+++ b/blahblah/bbdb.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def initBlog(db_file):
 
 def newPost(db, title, body):
     now = datetime.datetime.now()
-    time = int(now.timestamp() * 1000)
+    time = int(now.timestamp())
     db.execute(
         "INSERT INTO posts (title, body, timestamp) VALUES (?, ?, ?)",
         (title, body, time)
diff --git a/blahblah/render.py b/blahblah/render.py
index 134ed6f..d8d0da9 100644
--- a/blahblah/render.py
+++ b/blahblah/render.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import markdown
 import toml
+import math
 from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader
 from blahblah import bbdb
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -20,10 +21,16 @@ except:
     sys.exit()
 
 def generateBodies(db):
+    pageCount = 1
     postCount = 0
+    perPage = config['formatting']['post_per_page']
+    documentRoot = config['server']['document_root']
+    copyrightHolder = config['server']['copyright_holder']
     blogRoll = []
     blobStack = ""
     for p in bbdb.getAllPosts(db):
+        postURLIntro = '<a href="' + documentRoot + "/blog/posts/" + str(p["timestamp"]) + '.html">'
+
         if p["title"] != None:
             newPost = '<div class="blobs mainbox blogpost">'
             newPost = newPost + "<h2>" + p["title"] + "</h2><br>"
@@ -33,30 +40,58 @@ def generateBodies(db):
         bodyText = p["body"]
 
         if len(bodyText) > 512:
-            formattedBody = bodyText[0:509] + '...'
+            formattedBody = bodyText[0:512] + postURLIntro + '...[click for full post]' + '</a>'
         else:
             formattedBody = bodyText
 
         formattedBody = markdown.markdown(formattedBody)
         bodyText = markdown.markdown(bodyText)
+        ts = p["timestamp"]
 
-        with open("./blog/posts/" + str(p["id"]) + ".html", "w") as f:
+        with open("./blog/posts/" + str(p["timestamp"]) + ".html", "w") as f:
             singlePost = newPost + bodyText
+            singlePost = singlePost + '<p style="font-size:small;text-align:right">'
+            singlePost = singlePost + datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%B %-d, %Y') + '</p>'
             singlePost = singlePost + '</div>'
-            f.write(postTemplate.render(webRoot=config['server']['document_root'], blogContent=singlePost, siteCopyright=config['server']['copyright_holder']))
+            f.write(postTemplate.render(webRoot=documentRoot, blogContent=singlePost, siteCopyright=copyrightHolder))
 
-        ts = p["timestamp"] / 1000
         newPost = newPost + formattedBody
         newPost = newPost + '<p style="font-size:small;text-align:right">' + datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%B %-d, %Y  ') 
-        newPost = newPost + '<a href="' + config['server']['document_root'] + "/blog/posts/" + str(p["id"]) + '.html">'
-        newPost = newPost + 'link to full post</a></p></div>'
+        newPost = newPost + postURLIntro
+        newPost = newPost + 'permalink</a></p></div>'
         blogRoll.append(newPost)
 
         postCount += 1
 
-    if postCount < config['formatting']['post_per_page']:
-        for p in blogRoll:
-            blobStack = blobStack + p
+    pageCount = math.ceil(postCount / perPage)
+
+    for i in range(1, pageCount + 1):
+        counter = 0
+        blobStack = ""
+        while counter < perPage and len(blogRoll) > 0:
+            blobStack = blobStack + blogRoll.pop(0)
+            counter += 1
+
+        if i > 1:
+            prev = '<a href="' + documentRoot + '/page' + str(i-1) + '.html"><p>Page ' + str(i-1) + '</p></a>'
+        else:
+            prev = " "
+
+        cur = '<p>Page ' + str(i) + '</p>'
+
+        if i == pageCount:
+            following = " "
+        else:
+            following = '<a href="' + documentRoot + '/page' + str(i+1) + '.html"><p>Page ' + str(i+1) + '</p></a>'
+
+        with open("./blog/page" + str(i) + ".html", "w") as f:
+            f.write(rollTemplate.render(prevPage=prev, curPage=cur, nextPage=following, webRoot=documentRoot, blogContent=blobStack, siteCopyright=copyrightHolder))
+            f.close()
 
     with open("./blog/index.html", "w") as f:
-        f.write(rollTemplate.render(webRoot=config['server']['document_root'], blogContent=blobStack, siteCopyright=config['server']['copyright_holder']))
+        with open("./blog/page1.html", "r") as g:
+            for line in g:
+                f.write(line)
+            g.close()
+        f.close()
+
diff --git a/blahblah/templates/roll_template.html.jinja b/blahblah/templates/roll_template.html.jinja
index 780529b..06d5833 100644
--- a/blahblah/templates/roll_template.html.jinja
+++ b/blahblah/templates/roll_template.html.jinja
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
         <div class ="inner-content">
              <div class ="blogbox">
                  {{ blogContent }}
+                 <div class = "blobs mainbox navi">
+                    <div>{{ prevPage }}</div><div><b>{{ curPage }}</b></div><div>{{ nextPage }} </div>
+                 </div>
              </div>
              <div class="blobs linkbox">
                  <a href="{{ webRoot }}"><p>HOME</p></a><hr>