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How to sort a matrix at display ?

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Sébastien Antoniotti

Tuesday 12 December 2006 5:14:53 am

Hi,

I'm looking for a solution to sort a matrix on a column (alphabetical sort on the name by exemple), but I don't found anything in the documentation and forum...

Did someone has an idea ?

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Xavier Dutoit

Tuesday 12 December 2006 10:32:44 am

Salut,

Have a look at this extension, might be what you're looking for:

http://ez.no/community/contribs/template_plugins/sortable_ezmatrix_datatype

http://www.sydesy.com

Sébastien Antoniotti

Tuesday 12 December 2006 11:00:38 am

Salut,

Thanks for your help, I have seen this contrib, but it seems that she don't sort the php array, she display the ezmatrix in her default order, and then she add buttons to sort it with javascript.

I just want to display my matrix in a classic html table, but before looping into, I want to sort it on a column.

I hope someone will understand me... lol

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Claudia Kosny

Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:04:18 pm

Hi Sebastien

As far as I know there is no built in way to sort an ezmatrix. If you know PHP though it is fairly easy to write a template operator that takes an ezmatrix and a column name as input and returns a sorted 2 dimensional array - just grab the values of the matrix, put them into an 2 dimensional array and use e.g. usort() to sort by the specified column.

Good luck

Claudia

Sébastien Antoniotti

Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:51:08 pm

Hi Claudia,

Thanks a lot for your input, I think I'll try like this !

thanks again =)

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