Why not just sort it in the database side? Just add a custom argument
to the sort order and pass that arg via your column titles. (onClick
the column titles to pass the sortby argument)
>The problem I have I fetch the values from the database with names,ids and
>there respective deadlines.so when I fetch the results the resultset will
>look something like this.
>
>Project Name : Project ID : Deadline
>Prasad 100 Feb 05, 2003 03:10:00
>Gauthier 101 Apr 10, 2004 02:00:00
>Mike 102 Apr 24, 2002 02:10:00
>
>so when a customer chose the project name it easily gets sorted through the
><@SORT> tag .Simmilarly it happens for Project ID .But when I want to sort
>the deadline I am not able to do that because <@SORT> doesn't support dates
>and everyone know this point.
>
>The problem I face is I have to use the same array for all the sorting for
>either the Project Name or Project ID or Deadline.
>Because the customer can choose anything to sort with.I can't use separate
>arrays because I have to display all these values together within a table
>tag in HTML in the form of rows at the same place.
>
>I hope I am clear enough.
>
>thanx in Advance.
>Prasad
>
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>
>For my case I only use seconds timestamp, so you can order it as any numeric
>column.
>Could you give us an example of what your date column look like?
>if you want to do the same thing from another date format look at
><@TSTOSECS> (for processing date sorting) and <@SECSTOTS> (for display
>purpose)
>
>Gauthier
>
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