Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.When reviewing overdue items, (at least in our case) it's quite helpful to have the table of overdue items primarily be sorted by date, especially with a list that spans years in some cases.
Attached is a one-line patch that sorts the item ids by their duedate. Interestingly, PHP seems to insert items checked out by the same person at a later date below the earlier items of that patron due to the patron id being the array's index. For us, this grouping is a feature rather than a bug.
Feel free to reject the attached patch if the behavior is too counterintuitive for other users.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 735328-sort-2.patch | 874 bytes | grahl |
| #1 | sort.patch | 890 bytes | grahl |
Comments
Comment #1
grahlComment #2
grahlThe previous patch is a bit cumbersome. I have now changed the structure of $rows in library.pages.inc in the following patch, to have a quick sort based on due dates.
Comment #3
jastraat commentedI've been swamped for the last year, and I haven't had a chance to figure out how to set up Git access yet. I may be able to add you as a maintainer if that's still of interest to you. Also - is this patch against 6.x-1 or 6.x-2?
Comment #4
grahl