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#1 Today 14:30:52

gaekwad

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From: People's Republic of Cornwall

Registered: 2005-11-19

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How can I show a link's sort value?

I’m scratching my head on this one – is it possible to output a link’s sort value, please?

Last edited by gaekwad (Today 14:31:02)

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#2 Today 15:13:54

Bloke

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From: Leeds, UK

Registered: 2006-01-29

Posts: 12,010

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Re: How can I show a link's sort value?

Not from the link tags, sadly. Not sure why we don’t have a <txp:link_info /> tag instead of all the useless specific ones, but this should be sidesteppable in 5.0.0 owing to content type retooling and CFs.

In the meantime (untested):

<txp:linklist>
   <link::url />
   ...
   <txp:php>
      global $thislink;
      echo $thislink['linksort'];
   </txp:php>
</txp:linklist>

EDIT: for bonus marks you could set that PHP block up as a shortcode and call your Form linksort. Then you can invoke it with <txp::linksort /> which is at least a bit more friendly – as long as you’re careful to only use it in a link context (otherwise it’ll error out unless you wrap some defensive code around it).

Last edited by Bloke (Today 15:15:22)

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#3 Today 19:50:23

etc

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Registered: 2010-11-11

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Re: How can I show a link's sort value?

Unless you have etc_query installed :-)

<etc::query globals="thislink" data="{?linksort}" />

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