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Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

Mathias Verraes — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:50:35 -0000

I posted it http://blog.joomlatools.org...
Congratulations Thomas.

Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

Thomas — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:02:37 -0000

Hi, when do you want to show the solutions?

Thomas

Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

severdia — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:54:01 -0000

The solution is also one that was recently added to Joomla 1.5.6 (I believe) to fix the same problem with menu item ordering, so the answer is there for those who look in the right place.

Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

Mathias Verraes — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:14:22 -0000

@Richard Greset: The solution you posted is indeed the one. I removed your comment for now, so others can have a go. I'll put it back in a week or so.

@All: please _email_ your solution, as stated in the post, don't post it here.

Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

Torkil Johnsen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:54:18 -0000

I understand... And I might just be very very tired... but JTables reorder function seems to reorder all rows in a table, doesn't it?

If so, this challenge is alot like trying to rewrite that function, but then again; My 4 month old son has given me some sleep deprivation lately so please excuse any stupidities :)

Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

Mathias Verraes — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:05:43 -0000

JTable::reorder() allows to reorder a specific set of rows, which is outside of scope for this challenge. It also has a query inside a loop, which is generally considered bad practice.

For clarity, I'm not asking for something like this:
function cleanup_ordering($table_name, $where).
The only goal is to compact all rows in one specific table, namely jos_contents.
You need to use the framework's db object, not php's mysql_* functions.

Re: Joomla Developers Challenge

Torkil Johnsen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:53:24 -0000

Using the Joomla framework would mean just using JTable->reorder in my opinion, since this function does exactly what you are describing.

Do you want a rewrite of the reorder-function maybe?