[Grok-dev] Re: Sorting catalog results

[Luciano Ramalho]

Thanks for your input, Kevin.

I've developed many news-oriented web sites as well, some of them
publishing hundreds of stories per week. Saving stories in folders
organized by date helped a lot with dealing with the recent news
searches. We had a folder tree like this, for each section of the
site:

sports/2007/06/26/story0001
sports/2007/06/26/story0002
sports/2007/06/26/story0003
sports/2007/06/27/story0001

That also helped managing the archive, as some licensors (like news
agencies) charge extra for allowing archives to be kept going back
more than a month or so.

In Kirbi the content is about books, so sorting by date is only part
of the story. If a user wants do see items with a certain tag (say,
sci-fi), the results should appear alphabetically by title, or by
author then title. Perhaps zc.table is what I need, I'll look into it.
I already have a database with 15.000 books that I intend to use for
testing; a very popular tag may have 1000 items. You'll all know the
results...

Cheers,

Luciano