Question

I wonder if anyone can help me. I’m using PodHawk – a basic podcast cms, I would like the admin area file select to show my files in order – by name.

The select/option dropdown uses this code, is there a straightforward way to get the dropdown to display in order by name,. I’ve searched but cant find anything in the Smarty documentation, but I’m probably using the wrong terminology!

{foreach from=$upload item=file}
    <option value="{$file|escape:'url'}">{$file}</option>
{/foreach}

many thanks rob

Solved with many thanks to poster below –

{$upload|@sort:$smarty.const.SORT_NUMERIC} 
{foreach from=$upload item=file}
    <option value="{$file|escape:'url'}">{$file}</option>
{/foreach}

Answer 1

cgwyllie neglected that asort() returns a boolean, not the sorted array. So his approach wouldn’t work. As the index is not used, a(ssociative)sort is not required.

{$_foo = $upload|sort:$smarty.const.SORT_LOCALE_STRING}
{foreach $upload as $file}
  <option value="{$file|escape:'url'}">{$file|escape:"html"}</option>
{/foreach}

should do the trick. Make sure you really need that $file urlencoded, otherwise change escape:”url” to escape:”html”.

(the above is Smarty3 syntax)