REEOrder Module (Custom ordering of entries)

Hi cityzen,

This is expected behaviour. Entries need to be re-ordered to get a sort value.

Excellent, thanks for clarifying. It works great when I am listing all entries but the weird implementation I have now doesn’t work so well with that behavior. Thanks again for the prompt response.

Mike

Hey Cocoaholic,

I love the REEOrder module, it’s helped out with a lot of manual functions for clients. I’m wondering if there’s a possible bug or issue when using the XML function. I can’t imagine for the life of me why this is happening, but it’s only inside of an xml file.

My XML template uses this code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<content>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="home_page_banner" limit="4" orderby="homepage_reeorder" dynamic="off"}<image path="{homebanner_image}"{if banner_url != ""} {banner_url}link="{address}" win="{if opens_in != ""}_blank{if:else}_self{/if}"{/banner_url}{/if} >
{/exp:weblog:entries}</content>

That outputs this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<content>
<image path="/images/banners/Sprint_Banner_2.jpg" link="http://www.sprintsave4cu.com/" win="_blank" >
<image path="/images/banners/Rewards_header_banner_3.jpg" link="https://www.uchooserewards.com/members/home.php?sid=40XXdKrlo40" win="_blank" >
<image path="/images/banners/HeaderBanner2-UltFreeCheck.jpg" link="http://198.171.234.140/index.php/banking/checking/" win="_self" >
<image path="/images/banners/HeaderBanner1-75thAnniversary.jpg" link="http://198.171.234.140/images/uploads/anniversary_calendar.pdf" win="_blank" >
</content>

That renders in the order in which the content was posted, and ignores the REEOrder custom fields entirely.

However, when I create a standard page using the exact same snippet of content like this:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="home_page_banner" limit="4" orderby="homepage_reeorder" dynamic="off"}<image path="{homebanner_image}"{if banner_url != ""} {banner_url}link="{address}" win="{if opens_in != ""}_blank{if:else}_self{/if}"{/banner_url}{/if} >
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I end up getting this, which is the correct ordered rendering:

<image path="/images/banners/Sprint_Banner_2.jpg" link="http://www.sprintsave4cu.com/" win="_blank" >
<image path="/images/banners/HeaderBanner2-UltFreeCheck.jpg" link="http://198.171.234.140/index.php/banking/checking/" win="_self" >
<image path="/images/banners/HeaderBanner1-75thAnniversary.jpg" link="http://198.171.234.140/images/uploads/anniversary_calendar.pdf" win="_blank" >
<image path="/images/banners/Rewards_header_banner_3.jpg" link="https://www.uchooserewards.com/members/home.php?sid=40XXdKrlo40" win="_blank" >

If anyone has any suggestions or insight, I’d appreciate it. I’m going bonkers! :D

This is a great module so thanks for taking the time to make it. Just one quick question for you. Is it possible to update the post status within the module itself?

For example, I’m using the module to allow clients to order the features they have on their homepage, however I’d also like them to be change the status to stop displaying a certain entry at all for now? The module is so close (it’s already displaying the status) to this, so I’m wondering if you have any plans to implement this functionality?

Cheers

Do you know if this module is 2.0 compatible?

Thanks for the nice module

after installing and don’t see any order numbers in the drop down menu of the reeorder menu though - did I get something basic wrong?

I’am using categories in my weblog - could that be a reason?

using EE 1.6.8

don’t you hate that - just after I submitted it was starting to work - but still how about categories?

Do you know if this module is 2.0 compatible?

+1 for this question.

Using this module and it works great, however when a new entry is posted this entry isn’t automatically given the newest priority (1) and in the reeorder module the priority number is blank.

It sorts itself out once you give any entry a click or give the latest one a priority of 1. I have the module set to sort=asc ( so that 1 is at the top) and also in my entries tag.

Any ideas?

@gamma91 I think that is just the way it works. You have to set priority manually - until then it has none. However, I found that on the front-end this meant that items without a priority came up top of my list (which I didn’t want) so if that is what you want by default you may be in luck. This comment earlier in this thread might help http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/43903/P108/#611174

I’m happy to announce Low Reorder for EE 2.x is available now for a modest price.

For those of you who missed it, read this announcement about me taking over Cocoaholic’s add-ons.

I’m interested and looked over your description, which is clear. But I’m wondering whether you could add any ideas (use cases) on how this might be integrated (?) with other important addons when they come out - if it can be. For instance, Tags, Structure, Playa, your own Variables addon, etc.

For instance, could one approach the flexibility of Seeries Or do you consider that to be a different species of animal than REEOrder?

Hey Low,

Lovely work you’ve done on this. I was sort of expecting this result since I performed a data migration to a site where we’d like to use ReeOrder, but: we just imported 14000 entries into the weblog where I was using ReeOrder. When I click on the link to start re-ordering, not to my total surprise, I get an out of memory error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 51 bytes) in /www/eh11822/public_html/vueee/modules/reeorder/mcp.reeorder.php on line 837

I’ve tried turning the module off and on again and re-setting up the preferences, but to no avail.

When Chocaholic first introduced this module, I got the impression that it was really designed for sites with a relatively small number of entries per weblog, so I’m not too disappointed. However, I’m still wondering if it’s possible to work around this out of memory error.

If not, I’ll have to find some other solution (although I have some ideas for how ReeOrder could for a weblog with a lot of records.

Cheers

R o B

You can always try and up the php memory limit in your .htaccess file:

php_value memory_limit 16M

You can up the 16M to even more if needed.

Thanks Low. I checked, but memory_limit’s sitting at 64M right now. Also, I’m not even sure if the hosts (EngineHosting, who we really want to use!) let you up your memory.