With Blogger (FTP, Classic) how do you add features that are too complex for the template?

Question

Using classic templates, publishing via FTP to a custom domain. I want to add custom elements such as: a tree view for archived posts (expanding using CSS/JavaScript) a tag cloud a slideshow of images JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

I used PHP to process a Blogger blog after it is published via FTP. Any server side language can do this (ASP, ASP.NET, Python, JSP, ...). I wrote a PHP script (blogger_functions.php) to scan the directory that Blogger FTP's to and generate a snippet of HTML to represent the archive hierarchy ($snippet). I added this PHP to the top of my Blogger template: $site_rootpath = "../"; $site_rootpath = "../../"; $site_rootpath = "../../../"; include($site_rootpath."includes/blogger_functions.php"); ?> And this to the sidebar part of the template: <?php echo $snippet; ?> Then I configured Apache to process the PHP tags in the blog's .html files by putting this in a .htaccess file in the root directory of the blog: AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm With this approach you can use the full power of PHP with a Blogger blog.