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[dutton Friend duttonJoin date: February 2010Posts: 33Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 5]

#154753

I am trying to use Web Links on our site however I need it to work and display with a bit more information.

What I am seeking is how to display the date and order the links chronologically by the date. I understand all weblinks are time stamped when entered so I believe the above would be possible.

[gray Friend grayJoin date: October 2009Posts: 957Downloads:0Uploads:17 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 292 times in 230 posts]

#357099

in componentscom_weblinksmodelsweblink.php find the function

[php]
function _loadData()
{
// Lets load the content if it doesn’t already exist
if (empty($this->_data))
{
$query = ‘SELECT w.*, cc.title AS category,’ .
‘ cc.published AS cat_pub, cc.access AS cat_access’.
‘ FROM #__weblinks AS w’ .
‘ LEFT JOIN #__categories AS cc ON cc.id = w.catid’ .
‘ WHERE w.id = ‘. (int) $this->_id;
$this->_db->setQuery($query);
$this->_data = $this->_db->loadObject();
return (boolean) $this->_data;
}
return true;
}
[/php]

try to add ORDER BY w.date DESC (more info)
so it’ll be
[php]
…
‘ WHERE w.id = ‘. (int) $this->_id .
‘ ORDER BY w.date DESC’;
…
[/php]

To add date into display layout you have to hack componentscom_weblinksviewscategorytmpldefault_items.php a little bit.

[dutton Friend duttonJoin date: February 2010Posts: 33Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 5]

#357119

Thank you. I am not sure why but I am not seeing any changes at all.

Last night I followed the instructions here and did not see any changes eiter.

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&p=2272998

Any ideas?

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