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#1 2005-11-02 16:01:21

Jeremie
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4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

It would be quite useful to be able to sort articles (using txp:article and txp:article_custom) by their categories.

A “simple” txp:article sortby="cat1" and txp:article sortby="cat2", similar to sortby=“section”, would do the trick I think. More we be nice too, but I try to keep this feature request as simple as possible :)

With the exemple given on the Faq by Zem, it would allow webmaster to do quite nice things.

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#2 2005-11-02 16:09:56

Mary
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

You already can. <txp:article sortby="Category1" sortdir="ASC" />. I’ll update the wiki.

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#3 2005-11-02 16:54:09

Jeremie
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

I’ll need a new brain, one who is able to understand PHP, not just read it. Anyone seen that on ebay recently ?
Thanks Mary.

One small question before you close the thread (or if you want to move it to How to it’s even better): how to sort on a second level ? Aka, sortby category1, but inside one category how to sort by title (for example) ?

Last edited by Jeremie (2005-11-02 17:06:04)

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#4 2005-11-02 18:08:04

Mary
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

For that you’d need to drop sortdir (I don’t know why its there anyway, it doesn’t need to be), and do:

<txp:article sortby="Category1 ASC, Title ASC" />

That’s assuming that sortdir doesn’t get changed to be hard-coded in the future.

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#5 2005-11-02 19:11:10

Jeremie
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

Even greater yup. Thanks.

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#6 2005-11-02 19:23:23

Jeremie
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

Ok I found why sortdir is necessary: it’s for txp:article_custom

<txp:article_custom form="articleMultiplesParCat" limit="9999" section="article" sortby="Category1,Title" sortdir="asc" /> does work, but <txp:article_custom form="articleMultiplesParCat" limit="9999" section="article" sortby="Category1 ASC,Title ASC" /> doesn’t (nothing is output for that command).

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#7 2005-11-02 19:32:20

Mary
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

Edit: Yeah, its certainly hackish, but it can work.

Last edited by Mary (2005-11-02 19:33:56)

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#8 2005-11-02 19:34:40

Jeremie
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Re: 4.0.2: txp:article sortby="category"

Well for me the one I quoted work (multiply sortby without asc, and sortdir…) with article_custom… the sortdir is applied to both the sortby, in the correct order. You can see it here (but in french).

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