selectable sorting, sort by price, saving etc

Hi,

We have an ecommerce website using ditto to present lists of products and would like to allow users to sort products by price, saving etc. The list of products would replicate the format commonily seen within such sites as http://www.harveysfurniture.co.uk and http://www.argos.co.uk.

How do I turn the &sort parameter into a dynamic option selectable by the visiting user.

Site: www.sassak.co.uk
Example page: http://www.sassak.co.uk/teak-furniture/
Using: 1.0.2

Create a small form. Create a snippet to get the POST value and make a placeholder out of it; have the snippet use a default value if the POST field does not exist. Use the placeholder in the Ditto call later on the page. The POST checking snippet has to be first, so it can set the placeholder for Ditto to use.

Or you could use AJAX and in your AJAX processor use $modx->runSnippet(’Ditto’, array(’paramter1’=>’value1’ etc ...); and return the HTML results of the runSnippet function into your page.

maybe a starting point: http://bit.ly/b2X7Yg

I’ve been trying to develop the sort feature using ditto, however it seems to produce odd results.


I’ve created a snippet and then placed the snippet within my ditto code as part of the &sortBy=`` parameter.

code: ditto


code: sortby snippet


It produces 99, 98,48,45,191,111 etc.

From the resulting pattern it seems to sort only the first,second digits and doesn’t detect the full price string value.

Any help would be welcome. Thanks.

any help appreciated, thanks

I’ll bump this thread again.

maybe have a look at Ditto’s config file-functionality too: http://www.pogwatch.com/ditto/ditto-config.html
if you need more advanced filtering, check out tvExplorer: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,16456.0.html