Re: paginate order A-Z and Z-A...I thought it was easy...

I don't think you can decide the direction in that way. Even though
sortDir() has an options parameter and a directions key it looks
for.... when you use sort() the options do not get passed along to
sortDir()

http://api.cakephp.org/view_source/paginator-helper/#line-163
http://api.cakephp.org/view_source/paginator-helper/#line-215

Generally you wont have to decide the direction either. A single
button can handle both directions. Paginator figures it out on its own
based on the rules: If the ordering is by the current field, reverse
the direction. If it is ordered by another field, order by this field
and default to ASC direction.

On Feb 4, 1:08 am, Mike Cook <m...@epubbooks.com> wrote:
> I'm rather new to cake and I'm having trouble understanding how to
> have a simple sort on a title field using the pagenator.
>
> All I need is two links, one ascending and the other descending --
> Title (ASC) | Title (DESC)
>
> At first I thought I could just set sort/direction, but perhaps doing
> this from the index view is not correct (I tried various combinations
> but without any luck);
>
> echo $paginator->sort( 'Title (DESC)', 'title', array
> ('direction'=>'desc') );
>
> I've searched through a bunch of threads (such as "Probably a
> ridiculously easy-to-solve problem with 1.2's paginate") and from what
> I could see you can set the direction in the controller, but this
> seems to be fixed one way or the other.
>
> I was hoping someone could give me directions (pun completely
> intended ;) on how to pass these params.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mike
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