How to sort event products by start date in the frontend?

[claude27]

Hi,

I would like to sort event products by default by start date in the frontend catalog list automatically. At the moment they are sorted by relevance and this seems to be sorted by creation date but I need a default sorting by start date.

At the moment I have no idea which file(s) I have to edit or which code I have to add. Perhaps the pagination.php file?

Thanks.

Aimeos version: 24.4.2 (TYPO3)

[aimeos]

Add these lines in your custom product controller:
https://github.com/aimeos/ai-controller ... #L591-L593

We've added it to the aimeos/ai-controller-frontend controller package too and it will be part of the next LTS release.

Furthermore, you need to add a new sort option in the pagination partial for sorting by "start" date/time:
https://github.com/aimeos/ai-client-htm ... nation.php

[claude27]

Wonderful, thank you very much for your answer! It helped me a lot.

Because I didn't manage to change the default sorting by manipulating the partial pagination (and on the home page I don't use a pagination) I added also these lines in the file
/vendor/aimeos/aimeos-typo3/Configuration/FlexForms/CatalogList.xml
...
<numIndex index="7" type="array">
<numIndex index="0">LLL:EXT:aimeos/Resources/Private/Language/plugins.xlf:catalog-list.sort-start</numIndex>
<numIndex index="1">start</numIndex>
</numIndex>
...

and the translation, e.g. for german:
...
/vendor/aimeos/aimeos-typo3/Resources/Private/Language/de.plugins.xlf
<trans-unit id="catalog-list.sort-start" xml:space="preserve">
<source>Start time</source>
<target>Startzeit</target>
</trans-unit>
...

Perhaps you can also add this to the lts version.

[aimeos]

Are you able to create a pull request with your changes in the Github repository?

[claude27]

I've created now a pull request. As it's the first time I pull to an official package I hope I made it right. Unfortunately I didn't manage to put the 2 commits in one pull request, so you will see 2 pull requests.

[aimeos]

Thanks a lot, they are merged now