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 08/25/04 03:28pm (Read 2,773 times)  

Ryan B.

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Is there a way to alphabetically sort articles?
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 08/25/04 05:02pm  
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Dirk

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Only if you change the code. And sort by what?

In index.php, there is a line that reads
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$sql .= "ORDER BY featured DESC, date DESC";
 
If you change that to, say,
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$sql .= "ORDER BY featured DESC, title ASC";
 
then it would sort the stories by their title (with the featured story still on top).

bye, Dirk
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 08/25/04 05:28pm  

Ryan B.

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Is there a way to only do it on certain pages?
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 08/25/04 08:12pm  
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Euan

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If you coded in Dirk's comment above, with some check for, say, topic, then hacked the topic editor to allow an extra field for sort order for that topic by date, alphabetically, etc. you could have different sorting for each topic. Would require a bit of knowledge of PHP and an extra field on one core table though.

Cheers,

Euan.
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 10/03/04 03:47am  
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pezastic

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Is there a way to alphabetically sort the topics themselves?
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 10/03/04 04:21am  
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Dirk

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// Topics can be assigned a sort number so that you can control what order they
// appear in the 'Topics' block on the homepage.  If you prefer you can also  
// have this sort alphabetically by changing the value to 'alpha' (default is  
// by 'sortnum'

$_CONF['sortmethod'] = 'sortnum'; // or 'alpha'
 
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