Question

I have a script in PHP like this one:

if(isset($_GET["ord"]))
{
    switch($_GET["ord"])
    {
      case 1: $ord = "name ASC";
              break;

      case 2: $ord = "surname ASC";
              break;

      case 3: $ord = "date ASC";
              break;

      case 4: $ord = "zone ASC";
              break;

      case 5: $ord = "latency DESC";
              break;

      default: $ord = "name ASC";
               break;

    }
}
else
{
    $ord = "name ASC";
}

And using it in code like this:

$res = mysql_query("SELECT people.name AS Name, surname, date, zone, latency FROM people WHERE online=1 ORDER BY $ord");
$content->ADD('<table class="online"><tr><th><a href="?s=online&amp;ord=1">Name</a></th><th><a href="?s=online&amp;ord=2">Surname</a></th><th><a href="?s=online&amp;ord=3">Date</a></th><th><a href="?s=online&amp;ord=4">Zone</a></th><th><a href="?s=online&amp;ord=5">Latency</a></th></tr>');
while ($resss = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
  $content->ADD('<tr><td align="center">'.$resss["name"].'</td>');
  $content->ADD('<td>'.$resss["surname"].'</td>');
  $content->ADD('<td>'.$resss["date"].'</td>');
  $content->ADD('<td>'.$resss["zone"].'</td>');
  $content->ADD('<td>'.$resss["latency"].'</td>');
  $content->ADD('</tr>');

}

It is actually working quite awsome but I have problem when I need to change ASC and DESC sorting – so my question is how to rewrite my script to also be in acs/desc sorting available in outup data? Thank you.

Answer 1

Assuming you have a header row with name, something like:

$content->ADD('<tr><td align="center">Name</td>');

you could change it to be:

$sort_order = "name ASC";
if($ord == 'name ASC') {
    $sort_order = "name DESC";
}
$content->ADD('<tr><td align="center"><a href="?ord=$sort_order">Name</a></td>');

then, when your script processes the “ord” variable, it will be based off your “Name” column header. Once you get this going, you’ll probably want to change your variables a bit, using something like a “?sortby=name&sortorder=ASC” request variable, but get the above working first and then you’ll see it.