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Description

Build the select list for Ordering derived from a query

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Syntax

static ordering($name, $query, $attribs=null, $selected=null, $neworder=null, $chop=null)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$name		$value The scalar value
$query		$query
$attribs	null	$attribs HTML tag attributes
$selected	null	$neworder 1 if new and first, -1 if new and last, 0 or null if existing item
$neworder	null	$prefix An optional prefix for the task
$chop	null

Returns

string

Defined in

libraries/joomla/html/html/list.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.html.html.list' );

Source Body

public static function ordering($name, $query, $attribs = null, $selected = null, $neworder = null, $chop = null)
{
        if (empty($attribs)) {
                $attribs = 'class="inputbox" size="1"';
        }

        if (empty($neworder))
        {
                $orders = JHtml::_('list.genericordering', $query);
                $html   = JHtml::_(
                        'select.genericlist',
                        $orders,
                        $name,
                        array('list.attr' => $attribs, 'list.select' => (int) $selected)
                );
        }
        else
        {
                if ($neworder > 0) {
                        $text = JText::_('descNewItemsFirst');
                }
                else if ($neworder <= 0) {
                        $text = JText::_('JCOMMON_NEWITEMSLAST_DESC');
                }
                $html = '<input type="hidden" name="'.$name.'" value="'. (int) $selected .'" />'. $text;
        }
        return $html;
}

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