Choose different sorting criterias with getpage/getresources

- 24 Posts
supertoON Reply #1, 14 years, 11 months ago
Hi

I have a page wit a list of products generated by getpage and getresource, with this I have sorted them by a TV called "area". The thing is, I really want to have more "sorting" options.

It would be nice if customers can choose between sorting items as "price"/"area"/"oranyotherTV"

Can this be done without having to generate a new template and resource ?

I was thinking in the lines of a simple link in the top of the page like illustrated below.

"Sort by: Area, Price, Weight, Volume"

Any help appreceiated!

The site in question: http://www.suppli.no/panasonic/

My getPage call:
```
<p class="sortby">Sortert etter: <u>Areal</u>, Pris, Effektfaktor (COP), Varmekapasitet (kW)</p>

[[!getPage?
   &elementClass=`modSnippet`
   &element=`getResources`
 
   &parents=`34`
   &depth=`1`
   &limit=`4`
   &pageVarKey=`page`

   &sortbyTV=`areal`
   &sortdirTV=`ASC`

   &showHidden=`1`
   &sortby=`{"publishedon":"DESC"}`

   &includeTVs=`1`
   &includeContent=`0`
 
   &tpl=`get-produkt-tpl`
]]

<ul id="pagination-clean">
[[!+page.nav]]
</ul>
```
- 24,544 Posts
BobRay Reply #2, 14 years, 11 months ago
You could put the options in a form at the top of the page with the action set to
```
 [[~[[*id]]]]
```
and the method set to 'post'.

When the page reloads, you could use a custom snippet at the top of the page to read the $_POST info and set a placeholder called 'my_sortby'.

Then in the snippet tag, use this:
```
 &sortby=`[[+my_sortby]]`
```
In the snippet, something like this:
```
<?php
switch $_POST['sortby'] {
   case 'publishedon':
      $ph = '{"publishedon":"DESC"}';
   // etc.
}
$modx->setPlaceholder('my_sortby', $ph);
return "";
```
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