Not ordering images correctly if numbers present in image title.

[Menard9]

Check this out.

http://zombiedeathhouse.com/horrorforum/index.php?action=gallery;cat=19

I always set it up to order them by 'title, ascending' and this is what I get.  It gives me exactly the same problem in reverse if you try to order by 'title, descending'.  It has always done this, even with my main, really large gallery; I just didn't get around to asking about it until now.

And yes, I have upgraded and it went flawlessly. 

Any ideas?

[SMFHacks]

This is a little tricky you can try this and sees if it works.

For SMF 1.1.x

Open Gallery.template.php
Find

Code: [Select]

WHERE  p.ID_CAT = $cat AND p.approved = 1 ORDER BY $sortby $orderby
Change to

Code: [Select]

WHERE  p.ID_CAT = $cat AND p.approved = 1 ORDER BY $sortby $orderby   , LENGTH(p.title) DESC


[Menard9]

Okay, sorry for the late reply.  I tried this, but to no avail.  I went into FTP, DL'd the php doc., opened and edited it using 'Find Next' in Note Pad, saved and FTP'd it back and noticed no change at all.  Attached, you'll find the altered gallery.template.php doc you had me change as indicated above.

I did this just tonight, a few days after the latest upgrade, which went smoothly.  Any other guesses as to how to get things to ascend/descend correctly with numbers in the image title?

[willerby]

I had this problem too as had set default to order by Title Ascending where the title was a vehicle year and chassis number. The issue is because the Title is text and not a numerical value so any code fix would need to convert the text to a number with some sort of 'Value' command (sorry don't know what that would be in php). But it wouldn't work in your case as you have text in there too.

Anyway to fix in your gallery, just rename the fields with suffix numbers 1-9 as suffixes 01-09 (the text sort just looks at the next text character and the characters 11 come before 2 but not before 02)

Thats how I fixed it

[Menard9]

Clever man!  It worked wonderfully.  Needless to say, after I read your suggestion I felt like a complete dunce.  I numbered with 001, 002, 003...etc.  That ought to keep me good through the first 999.