Joomla archive by year? - joomla

Question

I posted this question before, but it got drowned and barely got any views so I figured I'd try one more time.
This seems like such a strange thing to not exist yet but I've been looking for ages. Is there an archive plug-in or component, or any way really, to simply sort the archive by year? All I want is to display columns for each year, with the year displayed above each column, containing a (clickable) list of archived titles. I'm using Joomla 2.5.
Anyone know how to do this? Whether it's through a plug-in/component or editing the existing archive code; don't care how, just want to get it done. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You could try these extensions:
JExtBOX Article History - 5$
Demo : http://demo.jextbox.com/
Monthly Archive
Demo: http://www.joomla357.com/demo/monthly-archive.html - ?$
Mod LCA
Demo: http://www.jonijnm.es/web/mod-lca.html - free

Answer 2

This might not be an ideal solution and not too clean either, but I used Monthly Archive and changed the getMonths() method in the monthlyarchiveclass to include this:
$byYear = array();
foreach($month_years_unique as $month_year){
$year = explode('-',$month_year);
$byYear[$year[1]] = array();
}
foreach($results_months as $result){
$year = $result['year'];
$id = $result['id'];
$byYear[$year] = array(
$id => $result,
);
}
if(count($byYear) != 0){
foreach($byYear as $year => $value){
$html .= '<div class="archivecolumn"><h1>'.$year.'</h1>';
$html .= '<ul class="itemlist">';
foreach($value as $item){
$cat = $this->getCatName($item['catid']);
$link = 'index.php/' . $cat . '/' . $item['id'] . '-' . $item['alias'];
$html .= '<li>';
$html .= ''.$item['title'].'';
$html .= '</li>';
}
$html .= '</ul>';
$html .= '</div>';
}
} else {
$html .= 'No archived works.';
}