Question

In the backend I filled out the date field for several content elements in this format 24-12-2011.

In the database of typo3 the date value looks like this: 1293836400

I want to render some content using the date as a condition..

10 < styles.content.getLeft
10 {
  select {
    orderby = date
    pidInList.field = uid
  }
}

Okay okay.. this worked fine. I see the contentelements all is cool.
But then I was curious if it still works when I change the position of the pages which contain those contentelements.

BEFORE Pagetree:

page200 with content element with date 1-1-2011
page201 with content element with date 1-2-2011
page202 with content element with date 1-3-2011
page203 with content element with date 1-4-2011

Frontend Output:
content element with date 1-1-2011, content element with date 1-2-2011, content element with date 1-3-2011, content element with date 1-4-2011

AFTER (changend positon of pages in the backend) Pagetree:

page202 with content element with date 1-3-2011
page201 with content element with date 1-2-2011
page200 with content element with date 1-1-2011
page203 with content element with date 1-4-2011

Frontend Output:
content element with date 1-3-2011, content element with date 1-2-2011, content element with date 1-1-2011, content element with date 1-4-2011 (IT CHANGED!)

So it changend the position in my frontend output. BUT that is irrelevant because I declared: “orderby = date(!)” and not “orderby = sorting”. So why does is sort it by order? I dont get it..

Answer 1

The fields in orderBy are not escaped. As date is a function in MySQL, you have to escape it yourself:

10 < styles.content.getLeft
10 {
  select {
    orderby = `date`
    pidInList.field = uid
  }
}