Hi,

I am sorting the links by date but I am having a problem since 10/02. It put the last links I added (since 10-Jan-2001) to the end of the list but it also keep on sorting the other ones in the right form. Can someone tell me what I should do to fix it?
I use links2.0 for a news service that's whay I must sort them by date. You can see the main page of the news page at http://runto.roxette.org/News/Noticias/ and the last article that I added at the end of this page: http://runto.roxette.org/News/Noticias/more3.html (that should be at the main page).
Bye bye and thanks in advanced for any help you can give me...

Jorge

What modifications have you added to your LINKS script?

Regards,

Eliot Lee

I added: review.cgi, tell2.cgi, info.cgi and I think that nothing more. I put the link to sort by date and all was working great but I am having this problem and don't know how fix it. Can you please help me?
Good bye and thanks...

Jorge

Well then, the problem is that you have replaced the sub build_sorthit routine, which no longer sorts by date for your links.

So, what you need to do is use another sub called something like sub build_other_sorthit for the TELL2 and REVIEW mods, and then use the standard sub build_sorthit routine for sorting links in the category and search result pages.

Got it?

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Hello,

I didn't made any modification over there since I instaled all so I think it should be working. I am not sure what you want to mean but here is what I have there:

sub build_sorthit {
# --------------------------------------------------------
# This function sorts a list of links. It has been modified to sort
# new links first, then cool links, then the rest alphabetically. By modifying
# the sort function below, you can sort the links however you like (by date,
# or random, etc.).
#
my (@unsorted) = @_;
my ($num) = ($#unsorted+1) / ($#db_cols+1);
my (%sortby, %isnew, %iscool, $hit, $i, @sorted);

for ($i = 0; $i < $num; $i++) {
$sortby{$i} = $unsorted[$db_sort_links + ($i * ($#db_cols+1))];
($unsorted[$db_isnew + ($i * ($#db_cols+1))] eq "Yes") and ($isnew{$i} = 1);
($unsorted[$db_ispop + ($i * ($#db_cols+1))] eq "Yes") and ($iscool{$i} = 1);
}
foreach $hit (sort {
($isnew{$b} and !$isnew{$a}) and return 1;
($isnew{$a} and !$isnew{$b}) and return -1;
($iscool{$b} and !$iscool{$a}) and return 1;
($iscool{$a} and !$iscool{$b}) and return -1;
($isnew{$a} and $isnew{$b}) and return lc($sortby{$a}) cmp lc($sortby{$b});
($iscool{$a} and $iscool{$b}) and return lc($sortby{$a}) cmp lc($sortby{$b});
return lc($sortby{$b}) cmp lc($sortby{$a});
} (keys %sortby)) {
$first = ($hit * $#db_cols) + $hit;
$last = ($hit * $#db_cols) + $#db_cols + $hit;
push (@sorted, @unsorted[$first .. $last]);
}
return @sorted;
}

I think it's ok, no? or what I should?
Good bye and thank you so much for your help...

Jorge

No...You have changed the value for the $db_sort_link variable in the links.def file, right? If not, then your reviews and comments are probably not working correctly either!

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Yes I changed it, I have now:

# Field number to sort links by:
$db_sort_links = 3;

But what I should change?

Is so strange because If I add to it the date "9-Jan-2001" or another day before that date it sort it ok without problems. But if I add "10-Jan-2001", "11-Jan-2001" or another day before it put that link to the last.
Do you know what could be?