a ha
i had never see this page before:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CustomPagelistSortOrder
(i didn't see the teeny link to it from the pagelist page)
the PTV section at the bottom is great - i'm finally realizing the
ingenuity of using PTVs here and there.
now i have a modified version of newgroupbox that, towards the end of
the script, adds:
$wholenameArray = explode(" ",$groupSpaced);
$wholenameArraySize = count($wholenameArray);
$firstName = $wholenameArray[0];
$lastName = $wholenameArray[$wholenameArraySize-1];
$new['text'] = "(:FirstName:$firstName:)(:LastName:
$lastName:)"; // ADDED BY AO 8/28/08 -- add
and i can now use (:pagelist ... order=$:LastName :) to order by last
names...
of course, this doesn't work appropriately if, as Vince mentioned,
the page gets John Smith Jr, or if someone enters an organization's
name, "Organization AAA" (which one would want to list under the
O's), but i doubt that any more than a hundred or so users may
actually create groups on this site, and it probably won't be that
laborious to correct the handful ordering issues that arise by
editing the PTVs on their Index pages...
thanks vince for the heads up on custom sorting...
adam
On 27 Jul 2008, at 11:39 AM, Vince Administration wrote:
Adam,
You could write your own sort order. I gave up (with actually the
same problem) because I
didn't really want to handle John R Smith vs John V Smith vs John
L Smith Jr.
Vince
On Jul 27, 2008, at 2:01 PM, adam overton wrote:
hi there
i'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a special case of
pagelist alphabetization...
for the site, users come and name new groups using their own name, so
that we've got a list of groups like so:
Groups:
Jane Moe
John Doe
Albert Foe
etc
at the moment, if i use pagelist and order=name, then the list turns
out ordered by first name:
Albert Foe
Jane Moe
John Doe
my question: is there an ingenious way to alphabetize group names via
the last word (which will in this case usually be the last name?) so
that i get:
John Doe
Albert Foe
Jane Moe
?
thanks!
adam
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