Can the "Multi-Text" extension display data in reverse chronological order?

im sure if you saved each element into a php array, you could. You would have to have php on output turned on though. but i haven’t seen a way to do this natively in the extension.

I’ve modified this extension previously to allow a parameter for reverse=”yes” and it performs an array_reverse() on it. I haven’t yet submitted it to Mark to add in, but if you’re php savvy, you could do the same. Or as the godfather of soul says, store it in an array, and reverse it up.

Thanks AJP! Any chance you can share a snippet of that code here? My PHP kung fu ain’t that hot. I’m more of a cut-and-paste kinda guy.

I’ll see what I can do, but I can’t promise anything for a short time-table. Kinda swamped this day/week/month… Ughhhh…

Thanks AJP. I totally understand that situation! 😊

Anyone else out there?

Anyone else out there able to answer this one? Help!

Luc– how good is your PHP? If this were me I’d just throw the data into an array and do an array_reverse on it. Then output as you please.

hi Slapshot My PHP skillz are close to nil, otherwise I’d definitely do this myself. I was hoping someone else out there had already done this to this particular script and had met with some success doing it.

Luc,

Here’s code to do it if you had one column. For two columns, you can either format them correctly where $multiText is defined, or start looking into multi-dimensional arrays. Remember that PHP needs to be on output. I’m sure there’s a neater way to do this, but it’s late:

<?php

$multiText = '{multiTextField backspace="1"}{col_1}|{/multiTextField}';
$multiArray = explode('|',$multiText);
$multiArrayRev = array_reverse($multiArray);
foreach( $multiArrayRev as $value )
      {
         echo "$value";
      }

?>

thanks Slapshot

I haven’t tried your code yet. A friend wrote a javascript hack that renders the displayed data in reverse order. It works perfectly, except – of course – in IE.

This hack is OK, but temporary. I think I’ll work on a method to add new text fields in the weblog-entry stage, rather than in the display stage. It would help a lot to have the option to add a field below (current default) or ABOVE the fields.

Here’s that javascript hack that ALMOST resolves this. The javascript sits at the bottom of my page, right after the final </html> tag. Anyone see a way to fix this? Here it is below (the ID’s “list1”,”list2”, etc.. listed in the array recall the ones assigned to each individual multi-text field nested within its own DIV):

var arrListset = Array("list1","list2","list3","list4","list5","list6");
    
    for (l in arrListset) {
        reverseUl(arrListset[l]);
    }
    
    function reverseUl(ulId) {
        var tmpUlRev = "";
        var tmpUl = document.getElementById(ulId)[removed];
        if (tmpUl.indexOf("<li>") > -1) {
            var arrUl = tmpUl.split("</li>");
            arrUl.reverse();
            for (n in arrUl) {
                tmpUlRev = tmpUlRev + arrUl[n] + "</li>";
            }
        } else {
            tmpUlRev = tmpUl;
        }
        document.getElementById(ulId)[removed] = tmpUlRev;
    }