Auto Tag Sorting

terrybarth · March 9, 2024, 3:55pm

I’ve got a large group of resources/articles that use auto-tag to assign topics. There are about 80 articles and well over 100 tags. I have the tag cloud set to sort by tag in ASC order.

[[!tagLister?
&parents=4
&tv=article-tag
&tvDelimiter=,
&sortBy=tag
&sortDir=ASC
&limit=999
&target=3
]]

All is good except for a few tags at the end of the tag cloud that are out of order.

Any idea why this is happening?

Modx 3.0.4

dejaya · March 9, 2024, 4:12pm

Is it not the case that the tags are getting ordered like this:

A-Z a-z

So tags starting with lowercase follow after capitalised ones.

I’m not sure what you could do about this other than rename the lowercase tags.

terrybarth · March 9, 2024, 4:17pm

Ah yes. You are exactly right.

Thank you!

halftrainedharry · March 9, 2024, 5:05pm

The tagLister snippet uses the PHP function ksort to sort the tags.
You could add flags as a second parameter for ksort to make the search case-insensitive.

github.com

splittingred/tagLister/blob/173286e5e15eceed0bce9c6a53e559c14d6b6847/core/components/taglister/elements/snippets/taglister.snippet.php#L145


      
                /* increment tag count */
                if (empty($tagList[$key])) {
                   $tagList[$key] = 1;
                } else { $tagList[$key]++; }
             }
          }
          
          /* sort */
          switch ($sortBy.'-'.$sortDir) {
              case 'publishedon-DESC': case 'publishedon-ASC': break;
              case 'tag-ASC': ksort($tagList); break;
              case 'tag-DESC': krsort($tagList); break;
              case 'count-DESC': asort($tagList); break;
              case 'count-ASC': default: arsort($tagList); break;
              case 'rand-ASC': case 'random-ASC': case 'rand()-asc': $tagList = $tagLister->ashuffle($tagList); break;
          }
          
          /* iterate */
          $totalTags = 0;
          $i = $all ? 1 : 0;
          foreach ($tagList as $tag => $count) {