Hi

does anyone have any idea why i can download the sortabledataobject module being talked about here.
http://doc.silverstripe.org/modules:sortabledataobject

i really need to use it.

thx

P

It's part of the DataObjectManager package.

Hi UC

the thing is i tries following the tutorial step by step using 2.4 but i get an error say these classes doesnt exist.

<?php
 
Object::add_extension('ComponentSet','SortableDataObjectSet');
Object::add_extension('DataObjectSet','SortableDataObjectSet');
Object::add_extension('Page_Controller','SortableController');

i want to implement front-end sorting

thx

P

Oh, sheesh.. that hasn't existed in like 2 years. I should remove that documentation. That whole adventure was a really bad idea. Data should be sorted in the backend.

Hi

Well said!
was just trying to be too ambitious I know DOM sorts very well and let me use that.

thanks for your time UC

regards

PJ

Sure, no problem.. It's funny, I was just thinking, in the 2 years that's been gone, I think you're the only one to have ever asked about it, so I think it was probably a good move. :)

Sure man I think it was a good move but did it ever work?

Yeah, it worked great, but the big hurdle was that I wanted to make it easy for people to write the sortable markup structure without having to remember all the specific classnames and attributes that were required, so I made up these new template tags like:

$_BeginSortableUL
<% control SomeSortableItems %>
$LI sortable data $_LI
<% end_control %>
$_EndSortableUL

Which, of course, really blurred the lines of the MVC pattern, and was ultimately, just.. gimmicky, I guess.