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  Posted: Aug 06, 2005 - 07:50 PM

  Anyone know how to use Smarty (pnrender) to list a set of links aphabetically? Right now they are just being listed by the order they were created, the newest ones being at the top. I would rather list them aphabetically. Any input would greatly be appreciated.
  
  EDIT:
  
  Here is a snippet of my code:
  

  Code

  <!--[foreach from=$link_listing item=links]-->
                  <!--[if $links.category_name == "Corn"]-->
              <div class="box1">Corn</div>
              <div class="section">
                              <!--[foreach name=linkloop from=$links item=link]-->
                              <!--[if $link != $links.category_name]-->  
                  <div class="box2">        
                                  <a href="<!--[pnmodurl modname="pxPDFManager" type="user" func="downloadpdf" pdf_id="`$link.link_id`"]-->" target="_blank"><!--[$link.link_name]--></a>
                  </div>
                              <!--[/if]-->
                              <!--[/foreach]-->
              </div>
                  <!--[/if]-->
                  <!--[/foreach]-->

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• MACscr
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 07, 2005 - 08:05 PM

  Mark West, any ideas? Im wanting to do the logic in the template, because its going going to be specific to a particular category within the module.

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 07, 2005 - 09:21 PM

  Really this sounds like application logic - i.e. something that should be done in PHP not in a template. However you could write your own plugin that does the sorting and assigns the value back to the template.
  
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• MACscr
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 08, 2005 - 07:54 AM

  Thanks for the reply mark. hmm, ok, now i just have to remember how to write a plugin. I did it awhile back for advprofile, hopefully it works close to the same way. Im surprised this isnt something i can do natively with Smarty.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 08, 2005 - 08:30 AM

  I write sorting in at the API level. (ie, the results are sorted as they come out of the DB.) Works nice.

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• MACscr
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 08, 2005 - 11:44 AM

  Again, i only want to do it for a particular category, i want this to be template level so that i can use it wherever i want. I appreciate the ideas guys, but its not what im looking for as it would require changing the core logic of the module and again would apply to all output, unless i hard coded it in the API.

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 08, 2005 - 10:06 PM

  So a simple plugin would do the job...
  
  In the template
  

  Code

  <!--[sort input=$myoriginalarray assign=mynewarray]-->

  
  
  and the plugin
  

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  function smarty_function_sort($params, &$smarty)
  {
      extract($params);
  
      unset($params['input']);
      unset($params['assign']);
         
      if (!isset($input)) {
          $smarty->trigger_error("sort:  parameter 'input' required");
          return false;
      }    
      if (!isset($assign)) {
          $smarty->trigger_error("sort:  parameter 'assign' required");
          return false;
      }    
  
  /*php code to sort your array goes here
  see http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php for vairous sorting options*/
  
      $smarty->assign($assign, $mysortedarray);
      return;
  }

  
  
  Notes: i've typed this directly into the forum so expect there to be typos. You'll also need to find the appropriate array sorting function or code a suitable sort rountine - the posted code is only basic plugin code.
  
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