Little help with sorting items

Hi,

I’m trying to build one of my projects with MODx cms and I done the easeast part, but now comes the hard

Here is the situation: http://www.goaddsite.com/debts-and-loans4/

Take a look into the up section and latest news section and debt questions section:

All this will be items from different categories or items from the same category it depends on the pages (home or inner page).

My question is how I should sort and what kind of snippet should I use to make this happen? I mean to take a title and date from the latest posts in different categories and placed it on the home page. Similar task I would like to accomplish in the categories I’ll sort the latest items and put them as a latest news in deferent categories.

Please take a look at the link and you will understand what I’m trying to do (http://www.goaddsite.com/debts-and-loans4/).... I hope

Welcome to modx dtstyle 

The snippet Ditto will certainly do this for you. It is very powerful and very customisable.

You can find its documentation here: http://ditto.modxcms.com/

and its sub-forum here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/board,180.0.html

Go through the forum to see examples, implementations, etc...

all the best!

/k 

Thanks!

I’ll try to help myself

I read the available information about ditto, but I really cant’t figure out how to solve my problems...even for a person with basic php, mysql and perfect xml, xsl, html, css skills it’s not easy.

Could somebody just give me an example http://www.goaddsite.com/debts-and-loans4/ for doing this job.

Take the last three items from "debt questions" category and publish them on the right part on every page or on the home page.

Thanks!

The error you are getting indicates that you have a bad &tpl setup (with missing placeholders or something). To sort you need to use the &orderBy parameter which looks just like the ORDER BY clause in a SQL statement. So to order by the pagetitle descendantly you would have: &orderBy=`pagetitle, DESC`. You can sort by any document or template variable.

Note: In the previous versions of Ditto you would use &sortBy=`pagetitle` &sortDir=`DESC`.