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#1 2014-12-04 05:33:48
- raminrahimi
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articles sort not works !
Hi,
I’m trying the following codes to have custom article list, when i add sort option, nothing appear and that place shows blank !
<txp:article_custom category="left-box" limit="3" sort="Posted asc">
<div class="logos">
<h2><a href="<txp:permlink />"><txp:title /></a></h2>
<a href="<txp:permlink />"><txp:article_image thumbnail="1" /></a>
</div>
</txp:article_custom>
Note: actually i need to sort by custom field 2, that also not works, if i clear the sort option, everything will appear !
<txp:article ... sort="custom_5 asc" />
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Re: articles sort not works !
hi
post all the bloc code you are using, may be there is a syntax error somewhere!
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Re: articles sort not works !
Your code looks okay to me so this is just a wild guess: In your second example you close the txp:article tag with /> at the end which prevents the contained code from being executed. If you remove the slash, the container should work…
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#4 2014-12-04 18:06:06
- raminrahimi
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Re: articles sort not works !
I think all my codes are fine, I’m using: Textpattern CMS · 4.5.7
Dragondz: although i put just the above codes on the blank page for testing and checked that, still can’t see anything, become a blank page :-(
Jakob: i know the second one is self-closed, even with that option i can’t see anything !
if i remove the sort option, then everything works fine …
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Re: articles sort not works !
Hi raminrahimi
This is just stating the obvious but do you have a custom field named custom_5 or does it have another name for which case are you sure that you are spelling it right in the code?
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Re: articles sort not works !
Switch to debug mode, then post the part of the HTML source that shows which SQL query results from your malfunctioning code.
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Re: articles sort not works !
I’m going to +1 colak’s suggestion and ask if you have any articles with the category left-box.
I’m also going to +1 ruud’s suggestion and recommend a tag trace in debug mode, which will show you what’s happening.
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#8 2014-12-05 15:35:45
- raminrahimi
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Re: articles sort not works !
Yes, I’ve articles on that category already, no option of sort works fine even i do by id, posted, etc…
this is the debug result on the source:
<!-- Runtime: 0.0206 -->
<!-- Query time: 0.007706 -->
<!-- Queries: 7 -->
<!-- Memory: 2383Kb, end of textpattern() -->
<!-- txp tag trace:
[SQL (0.00099301338195801): select name, data from xz9_txp_lang as txp_lang where lang='en-us' AND ( event='public' OR event='common')]
[SQL (0.0024199485778809): select name, data from xz9_txp_lang as txp_lang where lang='en-gb' AND ( event='public' OR event='common')]
[SQL (0.0013928413391113): select name, code, version from xz9_txp_plugin as txp_plugin where status = 1 AND type IN (0,1,5) order by load_order]
[SQL (0.00036382675170898): select page, css from xz9_txp_section as txp_section where name = 'default' limit 1]
[SQL (0.00026202201843262): select user_html from xz9_txp_page as txp_page where name='default']
[Page: default]
<txp:article_custom category="left-box" limit="3" sort="Posted asc">
[SQL (0.00089716911315918): select *, unix_timestamp(Posted) as uPosted, unix_timestamp(Expires) as uExpires, unix_timestamp(LastMod) as uLastMod from xz9_textpattern as textpattern where 1=1 and Status = 4 and Posted <= now() and (Category1 IN ('left-box') or Category2 IN ('left-box')) and custom_2 like 'Posted asc' order by Posted asc limit 0, 3]
</txp:article_custom>
[ ~~~ secondpass ~~~ ]
-->
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Re: articles sort not works !
Could the problem be this bit:
… and custom_2 like 'Posted asc' …
I can’t see that in your txp:article tag, so maybe some other plugin is at work (or have you named custom field 2 “sort”)?
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#11 2014-12-05 16:58:23
- raminrahimi
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Re: articles sort not works !
yes solved the problem !
before i renamed the custom field name to “sort” !
now i renamed to “sort1” , it works perfect :-)
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Re: articles sort not works !
Perhaps this should be considered a bug… and certain custom_field names should be put on a black list. Or better, but not backwards compatible, don’t use the user-defined custom field names as tag attributes, but stick to custom_1 etc.
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Re: articles sort not works !
ruud wrote #286300:
Perhaps this should be considered a bug… and certain custom_field names should be put on a black list.
I seem to recall there were some words listed on the custom_field entry on the wiki, and this thread backs that up, but they don’t appear to be there any longer.
Edit – found it www.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_Preferences#Custom_Fields
Last edited by gaekwad (2014-12-06 14:26:51)
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If it’s a known list of keywords, TXP can emit an error message and refuse invalid names, so the user doesn’t have to read the entire Wiki to find the cause for mysterious problems such as the one in this topic.
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#15 2014-12-06 17:12:55
- els
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Re: articles sort not works !
ruud wrote #286304:
If it’s a known list of keywords, TXP can emit an error message and refuse invalid names, so the user doesn’t have to read the entire Wiki to find the cause for mysterious problems such as the one in this topic.
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