Instead of patching node.module and taxonomy.module this would probably work better as a part of db_rewrite_sql. It would be nice to pass ordering and grouping data through hook_db_rewrite_sql. On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 16:37 -0500, Moshe Weitzman wrote:

Thank you, Moshe. I wasn't aware of those issues. I was looking for sorting features, not weighting. In the case of the weight.module (http://drupal.org/node/35984): I like the idea of not having to patch the core, but for what I can see, this weight.module will not sort nodes alphabetically, which is the only reason of sorting.module. In any case this module is not working with 4.6.3 nor with head. As per http://drupal.org/node/5738: this is patching the core a lot, changing database ('sticky' field to 'weight' field) and doesn't sort alphabetically either. Thus, for what I can see, it would be impossible to sort nodes alphabetically without patching the core. Now the question is if you think this is important enough to go on to patching the core. I think it pays off. In that case, which is the best approach? Is my approach something I could carry on? This sorting.module is just working for my site right now but it would need some more work to take it to a release state. That's why I'm asking the core developers if it will pay off to work on this AND if there was something there to work on, that I was missing, which you already answered. Robert G. Moshe Weitzman wrote:

Robert Garrigós Castro wrote:

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Hi all,

I needed a new type of node sorting for a drupal implementation I'm working on and I wrote a simple sorting.module that does the job. I thought it might be a nice feature to have for the new 4.7 so I uploaded a zip file with the module and a couple of patches here: http://drupal.org/node/37899

I will appreciate any feedback on this in order to evaluate the possibility to have something ready for a 4.7RC.

Robert Garrigós

Hi Robert. The issue tracker is the place for posting feature requests, bugs, and proposed changes to core. I suggest you use this issue, http://drupal.org/node/5738, or post a new one. Also note the contributed module called weight: http://drupal.org/node/35984. It's approach is slightly different than yours though (I like weight.module approach slightly better).