How to sort pages by specific template names preserving pagination?

[Clarity]

Hello everyone!

I have a paginated PageArray and I need to sort the results first by template1, then by template2 and template3 (in any order inside 2 and 3). Then by other templates by any order. Can you please tell me how to do it?

The solution might look something like:

$pages->find('sort=(template=template1,template=template2|template3),...');

[Ivan Gretsky]

https://processwire.com/docs/selectors/#sort

[Robin S]

14 hours ago, Clarity said:

The solution might look something like:

$pages->find('sort=(template=template1,template=template2|template3),...');

PW doesn't support that kind of sorting in $pages->find(), but you could use the FindMerge module and do something like this:

$base_selector = "title=foo";
$selectors = [
	"$base_selector, template=template1",
	"$base_selector, template=template2|template3",
	"$base_selector, template!=template1|template2|template3",
];
$pagination_limit = 20;
$results = $pages->findMerge($selectors, $pagination_limit);

 

[Clarity]

8 hours ago, Robin S said:

PW doesn't support that kind of sorting in $pages->find(), but you could use the FindMerge module and do something like this:

$base_selector = "title=foo";
$selectors = [
	"$base_selector, template=template1",
	"$base_selector, template=template2|template3",
	"$base_selector, template!=template1|template2|template3",
];
$pagination_limit = 20;
$results = $pages->findMerge($selectors, $pagination_limit);

 

Thank you, it indeed works!