[feedback-ok] Sorting Languages List & Content Elements List

[eelziere]

In Joomfish backend, languages dropdown list and content elements dropdown list should be sorted according to the labels in the lists. It is quite painful if you have a lot of content elements not sorted, to select one easily.

One proposal to implement this in Joomfish 2.0 :

- Add the new includes/sorting.php file (see attachment)

- Modify the administrator/components/com_joomfish/controllers/translate.php (see attachment) the following way.
Starting from line #174, add the following lines in green:

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// Required to sort languages and content elements before building dropdown lists
require_once( JPATH_SITE . '/includes/sorting.php' );


// Create the pagination object
jimport('joomla.html.pagination');
$pageNav = new JPagination($total, $limitstart, $limit);

// get list of active languages
$langOptions[] = JHTML::_('select.option', '-1', JText::_('Select Language') );
$langOptions[] = JHTML::_('select.option', 'NULL', JText::_('Select no Translation'));

$langActive = $this->_joomfishManager->getLanguages( false ); // all languages even non active once

if ( count($langActive)>0 ) {

// Sort languages before building dropdown list
$sorter = new objectArraySorter();
$sorter->sort($langActive, "name");

foreach( $langActive as $language )
{
$langOptions[] = JHTML::_('select.option', $language->id, $language->name );
}
}
$langlist = JHTML::_('select.genericlist', $langOptions, 'select_language_id',
'class="inputbox" size="1" onchange="document.adminForm.submit();"', 'value', 'text',
$language_id );

// get list of element names
$elementNames[] = JHTML::_('select.option', '', JText::_('Please select') );
//$elementNames[] = JHTML::_('select.option', '-1', '- All Content elements' );
// force reload to make sure we get them all
$elements = $this->_joomfishManager->getContentElements(true);


if ( count($elements)>0 ) {
// Sort lcontent elements before building dropdown list
$sorter = new objectArraySorter();
$sorter->sort($elements, "Name");

foreach( $elements as $key => $element )
{
$elementNames[] = JHTML::_('select.option', $key, $element->Name );
}

}

$clist = JHTML::_('select.genericlist', $elementNames, 'catid',
'class="inputbox" size="1" onchange="document.adminForm.submit();"', 'value', 'text', $catid );
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Hope this will help the dev team.

Cheers!
EE.

[eelziere]

Sorry, I forgot to attach the includes/sorting.php file. Here it is (inside the zip archive)!

[ivo.apostolov]

How the languages and content elements are sorted in that way?
By default, these are displayed in alphabetic order

[Geraint]

@eelziere

In the future it would be good to offer sorting based on the column title clicked on all the lists (translations as well as content elements and languages). I'll try to get this done for Joomfish 2.1

Geraint