pages sort from frontend

[a.masca]

Hi everyone,
I hope all is well in these strange quarantine days.

I'm looking for a way to give those who visit a page with a catalogue (a simple list of pages) the possibility to change the order of the catalogue items
by clicking on an up / down arrow.

so from this:

cat1
- page 1
- page 2

should become

cat1
- page 2
- page 1

but I can't understand how to use $page-> sort correctly.
Obviously I set the sort of cat1 children as a custom sort.
Can you help me out?

Thanks so much

[kixe]

Steps to solve this:

• create .js file which sends your sort criteria via form and receives the updated page list. Reload page or update content (ajax)
• get the input (sort criteria) via PW API:

  $input->post

   

• sanitize your input

• select pages from DB
   

  $pages->find('template=xy, parent=xy,sort=criteria1,sort=criteria2, ... and so on);

   

• render updated list.