Saturday 04 December 2010 6:15:19 am

Why don't you make one single fetch using a double sort array so you can sort them by your attribute "article/highlight" and then by publish date with a limit of 10. So that you'll first have the highlighted nodes listed by publish date and then the others..

Hi Jean-Luc, thanks for your reply. Surely a neater way ..

{def $items=fetch('content', 'tree', hash('parent_node_id', 2, 'sort_by', array( array( 'attribute', false(), 'article/highlight' ), array(  'attribute', false(), 'article/publish_date')), 'class_filter_type', 'include', 'class_filter_array', array('article'), 'limit', 10))}
...

But what I need to do is arranging those fetched items according to their publish date and push the highlithed ones in the list keeping just one order

In other words, instead of getting this result..

e.g. 2.12.2010 - 30.11.2010 - 28.11.2010 (the highlighted ones) - 1.12.2010 - 29.11.2010 - 25.11.2010 - ... (the others)

I should get..

2.12.2010 (highlighted) - 1.12.2010 - 30.11.2010 (highlighted) - 29.11.2010 - 28.11.2010 (highlighted) - 25.11.2010 - ...

Well, someone may say "then why don't you just sort by date without using any attribute_filter?!"

The thing is that if the 10th item is dated, let's say, 30.7.2010, and there's a need to highlight one dated 1.7.2010, this one should be forced to be the last of the list of 10 items and get the place of 30.7.2010...

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Sunday 05 December 2010 8:05:48 am

So let me just try to turn that an other way... you want to sort your items from the oldest one to the soonest and I suppose that if two of them have the same publish date, the highlighted one should come first.

But if the 10th is not highlighted and there is a sooner one highlighted, you want it to take the 10th rank.

..Precisely!

But by sorting them this way I still get the two sets of dates as two separated blocks (when the first ends the other set starts), while I need to force the highlighted items inside the list of ten (pushing the others away if there's not space for them) but always keeping one sequence of date from the latest to the oldest...

How can I sort the result array based on this logic? Do I need to make something up inside the foreach before I can display them?

loredanaebook.it

Monday 06 December 2010 10:40:32 am

Thanks!

I will look into it and give a try to make a custom fetch or a template operator.

Hope to come back soon with a nice solution!

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