Real-life super data flexibility programming?

This is a specific question which will probably provoke a broad answer, but I am wondering if there is a tutorial with MODx about a scenerio something like this:

1. A members page has an alphabetical listing of members by name.
2. Another page has an alphabetical listing of members by occupation.

Each of these pages has a simple one-line-per-member listing with a link that links to the full member description like this:

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Interior Redesign — John W. Smoke, Jr., Esq., Interior Redesign USA Ltd. LLC

Or like this:

John W. Smoke, Jr., Esq., Interior Redesign USA Ltd. LLC — Interior Redesign

depending on whether you are viewing by Occupation or Member Name.

Either link will pull up the same result: a full description of the member and what he does with a little picture of the member, contact numbers, website, etc.

3. That same data-- that is, all the members’ FULL descriptions-- need to be viewable when clicking the option "View All Members".

So, somehow, MODx would have to retrieve all the full member descriptions from the database (an array, I would imagine) and stick it into the template.

If at some point there are too many members, the template would display 10 members per page with a little navigation to view the next page, etc.


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So, is there anything like this remotely written in MODx besides the Kiwi shopping cart?
Is it a simple thing to do?

Thanks.

This seems like the beginning of a solution:
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/API:DBAPI:makeArray

This may seem like a strange question, but does this list of members you want to display reflect the membership of your MODx users? Said another way, do the people in the list of members you want to display need to be able to log into the MODx site? Do they sign up for membership or are they granted access to the site by your webmaster?

nate,

You could use loopdb (or dbloop) and a chunk to list the items one-per-line. Then you could use $_GET[’sortby’] (or something like that) to determine how the items are assorted.