Extension talk:Sort2

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Option style=""
I thought about implementing the style option to be restricted to the list style types valid for ordered lists. To be honest, I was too lazy and I chose to pass any style through.

If this is considered to be too threatening and if there's consensus I am willing to implement the restriction.

I just need your feedback on this.

Bugs
Hey,

Before the Sort2 function you created I had a list like the following:


 * Software Configurations
 * Permission
 * Disconnects
 * Unable to browse

But when I changed it for the sort2 my link to my doc did not work anymore:

 Software Configurations Permission -> Disconnects Unable to browse

You might want to see if you could include this functionally

Thanks, Justin

Special characters like colons, asterisks (*), and hashes (#) are removed even if they are not serving as list item markers. This means that, for instance, sorting a list that includes any links with namespaces or external ( http:// ) links will break the links.

CarLuva 21:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions
Hi. Is it possible to sort links? SORT2 is removing ":" ? Is this right? Anyway thank you for your extension. --Micc 20:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Not working with links
Useful extension. But breaks on lists with links. any fixes?


 * We use the extension at Stargate Wiki. We had no problems with links. Example: Template:Erd-Objekt.


 * We've tried to get it to work with in-page links; but since it removes the '#' sign (and other chars) these links cannot be sorted. It also can't deal with parameters sent into a template, e.g. , --Callum Wilson 10:45, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

How to add first letter?
How to create list for example?

A B
 * AMD
 * argument
 * ball
 * BMW

Modifications
I must admit that I'm still green when it comes to PHP. I've created the following modifications to extend the functionality of this extension. The mods are ugly and I can't be 100% they won't break something else.

In order to add URLs modify the function stripWikiListTokens to the following: What we're doing is going through out Sort2 block and looking for http: and temporarily replacing it with http{colon}. Then we go through the Sort2 block again removing all the MediaWiki specific list tags. Finally we go through the Sort2 block one last time replacing http{colon} with http:.

If you are alphabetizing a list of links in standard [url display] format Sort2 will alphabetize based on the URL. So a URL of  Google </tt> will come AFTER  Google </tt>. Both links are evaluated on the first letter following the http://</tt>. Therefore Sort2 sorts using the W in the former and the G in the later.

This may sound odd but I didn't like how the 'br' type looked. Especially considering that paragraphs are separated using '  ' tags instead. I added an additional type to support this. In order to implement add the following:

In function loadSettings look for this line: and replace it with the following line to make 'p' a valid 'type': Finally we need to handle 'p' types. In the function makeList add the following case to the switch statement: Then just use Sort2 as you normally would using 'p' as a type,  </tt>

BlueSuede 21:21, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Extra Bullet Point
If I use ul or ol it adds an extra bullet point at the bottom with no text beside it. I can get around this by using dl but I'd like the bullets. Any idea how I can fix this?