Is it possible to set the sort order and reverse flags on a dtml-in tag using URL arguments or REQUEST variables? Someone asked a while back about specifying the sort key dynamically. you can find my response in the mailing list archives (dated 1st Feb 2000, 09:50) as it has a few ideas that may be useful to you.
For example, sorting "employees" by "name" in index_html would be something like:
index_html?sort for
<dtml-in employees> ... </dtml-in>
In this case you could try (untested code): <dtml-let emp=employees> <dtml-if sort><dtml-call "emp.sort()"></dtml-if> <dtml-if reverse><dtml-call "emp.reverse()"></dtml-if> <dtml-in emp> ... </dtml-in> </dtml-let> Provided 'employees' sorts naturally this may be all you need. Sometimes it may be safer to copy the list before sorting it. I found this out the hard way once when I sorted what I thought was a copy of PARENTS, it sorted the original PARENTS list and some really weird things happened to variable lookup. Most lists may be copied thus: <dtml-let emp="employees[:]">...</dtml-let> If you need to sort on a specific field within employees see my earlier posting as above. If the data is in a database use the sql ORDER BY construct to do the sorting. -- Duncan Booth duncan@dales.rmplc.co.uk int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3" "\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure? http://dales.rmplc.co.uk/Duncan