Sorting by template label in selectors

[ZGD]

I usually stick to a convention for my template names so each is a single word. However the template label may be more descriptive, for example I have a template called post with the label Blog Post. I am implementing a search function and want to group results into types, so all Blog Posts appear together. Using the selector sort=template works for grouping in order by template name, but I would like the groups to appear alphabetically by label.

TL;DR: Is there a way I can use selectors to sort by template label, something like sort=template.label?

[abdus]

This one seems to work fine for me

$sorted = $templates->find('id>0')
    ->sort('label') // sort by label
    ->explode(['label', 'name']);

which gives

array (51)
    44 => array (2)
        label => "Blog" (4)
        name => "blog" (4)
    76 => array (2)
        label => "Blog Section" (12)
        name => "section-blog" (12)
    49 => array (2)
        label => "Categories" (10)
        name => "categories" (10)
    57 => array (2)
        label => "Contact" (7)
        name => "contact" (7)
    73 => array (2)
        label => "Hero Section" (12)
        name => "section-hero" (12)

 

[ZGD]

Thanks @abdus, I should have mentioned I'm searching pages not templates here. So I don't think using $result->sort('label') on the results PageArray would work for this situation?

[abdus]

Hmm. I thought you had a <select> that visitors used to filter pages by templates.

For pages,

$pages->find('id>0')->sort(['template.label', 'template.name'])

this one sorts by label, and sorts unlabelled templates by name, but unlabelled templates come after the labelled ones.

[Robin S]

7 hours ago, abdus said:

For pages,

$pages->find('id>0')->sort(['template.label', 'template.name'])

@ZGD, this works well if you have a smallish number of pages that you will load into a memory without any limit/pagination. It is applying the sort to the PageArray produced by $pages->find() rather than applying the sort in the database query. It won't work if you need to apply a limit/pagination because each set of pages will be sorted separately.

If you need to sort a larger number of pages by template then I recommend renaming your templates to align with the template label, as you cannot sort by template properties such as label within the $pages->find() - the template sort is handled as a special case within PageFinder.