numbering ditto output by descending date

Hi Guys,

Not really sure how to approach this and was wondering if anyone could offer some help or suggestions.

I’m using ditto to list some events using a custom Date TV. What I’d like to be able to do is automatically number the events. For example:

2009 Event 3: www.gohere.co.uk
2008 Event 2: www.gohere.co.uk
2007 Event 1: www.gohere.co.uk

Note that event 3 is at the top and is the most recent event listed, event 1 was the first event we listed.

How would I go about getting ditto to produce the Numbering that way automatically? I thought maybe just use Menu Index, but would like something a little more automagik. Maybe @EVAL? It needs occur based on the date set in my custom date TV, that way if I switch around the dates of some of the events the Ditto output will be nicely renumbered.

I can’t even work out if this is easy or not, my brain has let me down Any help would be appreciated.

Matt.

You could try a little Ditto placeholder + PHx magic. Ditto’s ordering index ditto_sort can be used as a placeholder, and you get the total number of items retrieved as [+total+] when &paginate=`1`. Throw in PHx’s math extender, and you can put this in your template:

I think you need the Ditto call to be uncached for pagination to work. I haven’t looked at whether you need that for [+total+] to be available.

KP

Hi KP,

Thanks so much, I haven’t installed PHx yet but I am certainly going to give this a try – I’ll post back when I do, thanks for the help!

+Matt