need to create linkable directory of pages

[scotch33]

Hello,
I've inherited an old bulletin board and upgraded it to YaBB which is cool. However, I have been given about 1000 old posts as seperate HTML pages by the old webmaster that originally used his early 19th century software ;).
I am trying to find a way to auto generate a page that'll run through the directory and write a link to each page for me so I don't have to sit there and code it by hand. It doesn't need to be dynamic once its done, it just needs to save me the time! I've had a search about but had no luck with finding any software that does this - anyone know of any such software or if not have any other ideas that may help?

Thanks

Scotch xx

[ray326]

What do you want the link to say? If ALL that's needed is a set of links then just put all the pages in a dir that you've set to allow indexes and the web server will gen it on the fly for you.

[scotch33]

Yeah - I kinda want to brand the page with the rest of the site design - thus i need to create as an htm page. Good idea though - that'll solve the prob in the short term. Thanks - that hadn't occurred to me (doh!).

[ray326]

If you're running on Apache then you might use the HEADER and FOOTER functionality to simulate that in the short run. I'd consider using Perl to build the index page for the long run. That way you could do something like open each file and grab the content of the title or some other descriptive tag on each page to use as the text in the link.