Is der anyway to sort the the results of nodes in ezflow manual blocks based on nodes attribute values

Monday 04 October 2010 12:21:39 am - 3 replies

Modified on Monday 04 October 2010 12:32:28 am by Romeo Antony

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Ivo Lukac	Monday 04 October 2010 4:02:07 am If you want to automatically do something in block then it is not a manual block :) Try making a custom block fetch class... Look in settings/block.ini and extension/ezflow/classes/fetches/* for examples http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivolukac http://www.netgen.hr/eng/blog http://twitter.com/ilukac
Gaetano Giunta	Monday 04 October 2010 10:45:05 am More: take care about the sorting of nodes in the results of your block fetch function: ezflow assumes items are to be sorted by the value of the 'ts_publication' value in the return array. When this is not a publication date, things can get a little tricky, ie. you could use any ordered sequence of integers for sorting your items, but ezflow will still treat that value as a real timestamp, forgetting to update/show things with a date in the future, etc... I've found the usage of custom blocks to be better: fetch and sort in the template, and you're done. Of course, this has an impact cache-wise. Principal Consultant International Business Member of the Community Project Board
Romeo Antony	Tuesday 05 October 2010 12:06:04 am Thank you for your reply Gaetano,Ivo.

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Ivo Lukac

Monday 04 October 2010 4:02:07 am

If you want to automatically do something in block then it is not a manual block :)

Try making a custom block fetch class... Look in settings/block.ini and extension/ezflow/classes/fetches/* for examples

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Gaetano Giunta

Monday 04 October 2010 10:45:05 am

More: take care about the sorting of nodes in the results of your block fetch function: ezflow assumes items are to be sorted by the value of the 'ts_publication' value in the return array.

When this is not a publication date, things can get a little tricky, ie. you could use any ordered sequence of integers for sorting your items, but ezflow will still treat that value as a real timestamp, forgetting to update/show things with a date in the future, etc...

I've found the usage of custom blocks to be better: fetch and sort in the template, and you're done. Of course, this has an impact cache-wise.

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Member of the Community Project Board

Romeo Antony

Tuesday 05 October 2010 12:06:04 am

Thank you for your reply Gaetano,Ivo.

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