Sort gallery images by date??

Hey guys, I think I should post here since im just a n00b....its a quick one:

When you using galleries, is there a way I can call from all the images in the gallery and sort by "date added" i cant see the option in the property "sort", i want something like this;





So grab 3 images from all albums sorted by date created descending.

Does this make sense, please help. I want to add a "Latest Photos" section

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Also very quick how can I grab the full url of the page, i use but that doesnt grab the full url when variables are passed in the url

[ed. note: bazpaul last edited this post 14 years, 7 months ago.]

It is taking me a long time to get an answer form these forums. This isnt the first time I have asked this question.

Can anyone help. I would think this is very easy to answer.

Can anyone answer this??

Can anyone answer this??

Hey, bazpaul.

The placeholder you want to call is "createdon" for the Gallery items. So it would look something like this:



Took me a while to find this myself, actually. For more options to sort by, look at the Default Placeholders (and possibly Properties, though I haven't tried) here:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/Gallery.GalleryItem

And when you asked for the full URL, did you mean for the image itself, or for the page that they are displayed on?

Wow thanks man, yeh I will try that. I think I tried that before, but i'll try again.

I gave up on trying to figure it outa long time ago and went for something different.

Lets say I wanted to show three random photos - would I use the same by write instead?

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For the full URL: I want to know how to capture the full URL of the page to code into a facebook like button. The page URL depends on which Gallery has been selected.

http://www.antsinmyspacebar.com/modx/barry-oneill-photography.html?galAlbum=12

You'll see that the like button displayed on each photo page is actually the same, rather than having a like button for each gallery!!

First and foremost, antsinmyspacebar is the greatest URL ever. Now that that's out of the way, I haven't used random sorting with Gallery before, but if it's anything like sorting the album covers, you would use:



rather than just "rand"... though, again, I haven't tested this.

As far as the like buttons, are your galleries each separate resources in your MODx? If so, I believe you should be able to use this for the code so that each button corresponds to the page it's on:



The *id part will work if you are using this code in a template. If, however, you have the like button in a Chunk, then change it to a plus instead of an asterisk, like this:



I am not too familiar with the FB like buttons, but hopefully this will help!

Hi,

Realise this thread was a while back, was just wondering where to find the attributes applicable to the 'sort' property relating to the gallery.

Looked in the modx gallery guide but could not see a list.

E.g

&sort=`createdon`
&sort=`ice_cream`
&sort=`cantfindlist`

Thanks