Item Manager Extended (Beta)

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Hello,

it's possible to get only 5 item's from all categories sorted by date..
without a categories. only 5 last added items...

i'm using a functions.php file in template folder
and i'm loading this function by template... it's working..
please help.. thank you in advance

hmmm... OK.
If you only try to show last 5 items sorted by release date, you can use this function in your functions.php file for example:

PHP Code:

function sort_array($a, $b)
{
    if ($a['date'] == $b['date'])
    {
        return 0;
    }
    else
    {
        if($a['date'] < $b['date'])
        { 
            return 1;
        }
        else
        {
            return -1;
        }
    }
} 


And your Controller might then look like this:

PHP Code:

// get max number of items displayed 
$items_max = 5; 
// initialize controller
$manager = new ImController();
// get IManager preferences
$preferences = imModel::getPref();

$items_arr = array();
foreach($preferences->categories->category as $cat)
{
    // setup items by category
    ImCategory::setCategory($cat);
    $manager->runModelMethod('gen_register');
    // get all your items no matter what category
    $items = $manager->getModelValue('items_ordered_struct');
    $items_arr = array_merge($items_arr, $items);
}

$item_count = count($items_arr);
$ipc = ($item_count > $items_max) ? $items_max : $item_count;

// There your "sort_array" function call
usort($items_arr, 'sort_array');

for($i = 0; $i < $ipc; $i++)
{
    echo '<strong>Published on:</strong> ' . $items_arr[$i]['date'] . ' <strong>Title:</strong> ' . $items_arr[$i]['title'] . '<br />';
} 


By the way, it's not necessary to register standard fields like "title" or "date", etc, you should do it only if you use custom fields like "tresc":

$manager->runModelMethod( 'gen_register',
array('title', 'tresc')
);

Better:

PHP Code:

$manager->runModelMethod( 'gen_register', array('tresc')); 


To dispay all standard fields of your items just use:

PHP Code:

$items = $manager->getModelValue('items_ordered_struct');
var_dump($items); 


Regards