Create Links to Sort Articles

matthewmcinerney · 2008-09-20 19:34:11

Is there an easy way to allow users to sort articles by clicking on a link? It seems to be pretty standard on a lot of sites, but I haven’t found a great way to do it with Textpattern.

I just would like users to be able to click links to sort by Date, Title, and Comment Count both asc and desc

joebaich · 2008-09-20 21:26:14

Are you planning to present the information you would like to sort in a table? If so, it sounds like a task for jQuery and its Tablesorter plugin. I don’t know that it is necessarily ‘easy’ but it’s well documented and so not too ‘hard’ :-).

maniqui · 2008-09-20 21:33:09

chs_if_urlvar will help you (it will work for date and title, but not sure it will work on comment count because, afaik, articles can’t be sorted by comment count)

Gocom · 2008-09-20 22:33:57

maniqui wrote:

afaik, articles can’t be sorted by comment count

Can. <txp:article sort="comments_count asc" />. Comments_count is column inside textpattern table and as it is, it can be used as a sorter.

Last edited by Gocom (2008-09-20 22:35:21)

maniqui · 2008-09-20 22:46:58

Thanks for clarifying, Gocom.

My brain was messed because few days ago, I read a post by ruud about articles not “sortable” by last comment posted, but that’s because that info (last comment) is saved in other table.

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