Sorting Category Or Search Results

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Hi there,

Right now when you look at a category, or search for results, in CubeCart 4 (I'm in 4.0.3 btw), you get a way to sort your listed results by name or by price. More options might be welcome, but that's a separate issue.

I'm wondering if there's a way to create text links to do the same thing, so that the user can just click once on text to sort, rather than use the pull-down and then the form. The output should look something like this:

An important thing I need is the ability to show whether we're sorting by name or by price, and in what order.

I was looking at viewCat.tpl in my skin, and viewCat.inc.php in the core. In viewCat.inc.php there's already a variable being set, $sort_order, which seems like it should be useful. and already being assigned are template variables based on which one we're sorting by...

The following already exists:

## create the links for product sorting - need improving later

$sort_order =  ($_GET['sort_order'] == 'high') ? 'low' : 'high';

switch($_GET['sort_by']) {

  case 'name':

	$view_cat->assign('SORT_NAME_SELECTED', ' selected="selected"');

		break;

	case 'price':

		$view_cat->assign('SORT_PRICE_SELECTED', ' selected="selected"');

		break;

}

I modified it thus:

## create the links for product sorting - need improving later

$sort_order =  ($_GET['sort_order'] == 'high') ? 'low' : 'high';

echo '[[sort order:' . $sort_order . ']]';

switch($_GET['sort_by']) {

  case 'name':

	$view_cat->assign('SORT_NAME_SELECTED', ' selected="selected"');

	$view_cat->assign('SORT_NAME_CLASS', $sort_order);

		break;

	case 'price':

		$view_cat->assign('SORT_PRICE_SELECTED', ' selected="selected"');

		$view_cat->assign('SORT_PRICE_CLASS', $sort_order);

		break;

}

Then, in viewCat.tpl, I created this line:

<p class="sortby">sort by <a href="{SORT_NAME}" class="{SORT_NAME_CLASS}" title="{SORT_NAME_CLASS}">name</a> · <a href="{SORT_PRICE}" class="{SORT_PRICE_CLASS}" title="{SORT_PRICE_CLASS}">price</a></p>

You'll notice that I also threw in an echo statement to see how that $sort_order variable's looking. It shows up, but the assignments don't seem to work.

What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Jeremy