Sort by price with column display....

[barnamania]

I am displaying my items in columns, and I want to create a drop-down box so the user can sort by price etc.

So far I have the following code in tpl_index_product_list.php:

<form name="sorter" action="http://www.dreamofrussia.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7" method="get"><select name="sorter" onchange="this.form.submit();">
<OPTION SELECTED value="">Sort by...
<OPTION value="&sortby=4a">Price
<OPTION value="&sortby=3a">Artist Name
<OPTION value="&sortby=2a">Size
</SELECT>
</FORM>

How can I make it so that the sorter will work for any category, ie. dynamically choose which category?

Thanks in advance.

[manada]

Also looking for this solution but not by using pop-up menu. All I need is two links in a product listing header: "Price asc" and "Price desc". Anyone knows how I can accomplish this?

Adam

[Ajeh]

Change the + and - to asc and desc in the Configuration ... Product Listing ...

[manada]

Change the + and - to asc and desc in the Configuration ... Product Listing ...

Yes Ajeh, but in a columanar display there is no clickable "-" or "+" like was in row listing (row listing has a sorter on "Model", "Item Name" and "price -(+)".

Adam

[barnamania]

Manada, thanks for raising this again. This is probably the feature I want more than any other for my inline store - the option to sort by price under column view... and I'm sure other zenners would like it too. I have tried to make my own workaround, but no success yet...

Any pointers Ajeh?

Cheers

[manada]

OK, i just look on this problem closely. I think we could go around like this:

At the beggining of tpl_modules_product_listing.php I entered as follow:

For ascending sorting link

echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT , "cPath=$cPath") . "&sort=2a" . '">' . "Sort By Price (Asc)" . '</a><br>';

For descending sort. link;

echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT , "cPath=$cPath") . "&sort=2d" . '">' . "Sort By Price (Asc)" . '</a><br>';

I know , its a little bit "off-zen" but it works.

Adam

[OgeGOon]

Hi ! I was also trying to add a combo in this page to sort on the various columns. But without success... Probably because I have never developed with php before tonight :/

I tried to include "tpl_modules_listing_display_order" as done in the header_php of the product_all page:

require(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_LISTING_DISPLAY_ORDER));

But it does not even display the combo...

As I would like to avoid learning php (and everything about ZenCart) in one night... just to add this combo in one page. Someone can help me ?

Should I include more than just the "require(...)" ???

O.

[Ajeh]

If you want to sort by price can't you just set the sort order on the Product Listing to your Price column?

Click on the title above it and it will tell you the sort setting in the URL ...

[gjh42]

I believe the point is that that function doesn't exist in the column grid view. Would finding the sort number before installing the grid mod be relevant after the mod is installed?

[Ajeh]

I don't use that add-on so perhaps someone who does can better answer this for you ...