Question

I am using Drupal 6 and have multiple flags on my nodes each with a value such as: interesting, boring, intelligent, funny, abusive, etc. Views is currently able to sort results by the flag count for each individual flag but I need to sort my nodes by the total combined flag count of all the flags on each note. The ‘rate’ module comes fairly close to doing this but I need to use the flag module so that I can use the flag solr module to allow searching by flag. I just really don’t know where to start… any suggestions as to an approach I could take?

Here’s the current views query;

SELECT node.nid AS nid, 
flag_counts_node.count AS flag_counts_node_count,    
flag_counts_node_1.count AS flag_counts_node_1_count, 
flag_counts_node_2.count AS flag_counts_node_2_count, 
flag_counts_node_3.count AS flag_counts_node_3_count, 
flag_counts_node_4.count AS flag_counts_node_4_count FROM node node  
LEFT JOIN flag_counts flag_counts_node ON node.nid = flag_counts_node.content_id AND flag_counts_node.fid = 7 
LEFT JOIN flag_counts flag_counts_node_1 ON node.nid = flag_counts_node_1.content_id AND flag_counts_node_1.fid = 6 
LEFT JOIN flag_counts flag_counts_node_2 ON node.nid = flag_counts_node_2.content_id AND flag_counts_node_2.fid = 4 
LEFT JOIN flag_counts flag_counts_node_3 ON node.nid = flag_counts_node_3.content_id AND flag_counts_node_3.fid = 5 
LEFT JOIN flag_counts flag_counts_node_4 ON node.nid = flag_counts_node_4.content_id AND flag_counts_node_4.fid = 3 
WHERE (node.type in ('rpodcast', 'upodcast')) AND (node.status = 1) ORDER BY flag_counts_node_count ASC, flag_counts_node_1_count ASC, flag_counts_node_2_count ASC, flag_counts_node_3_count ASC, flag_counts_node_4_count ASC

Here the module code so far ;

<?php
function flagcountview_views_pre_execute(&$view){
if ($view->name == 'audio') {
$sql = $view->build_info['query']; 
$flag_count = "flag_counts_node.count + flag_counts_node_1.count +  flag_counts_node_2.count + flag_counts_node_3.count"; 
$sql .= "ORDER BY $flag_count DESC"; 
$view->build_info['query'] = $sql;
}
}

Answer 1

Hi seems like you cant add fields, so we can try alternate approach

function flagcountview_views_pre_execute(&$view){
  if ($view->name == 'audio') {
    $sql = $view->build_info['query']; 
    $search = "ORDER BY flag_counts_node_count ASC, flag_counts_node_1_count ASC, flag_counts_node_2_count ASC, flag_counts_node_3_count ASC, flag_counts_node_4_count ASC";
    $replace = "ORDER BY flag_counts_node.count + flag_counts_node_1.count +  flag_counts_node_2.count + flag_counts_node_3.count ASC"; 
    $sql = str_replace($search, $replace, $sql);; 
    $view->build_info['query'] = $sql;
  }
}

Make sure you added all flag count in view -> sort criteria 🙂