Sort list field alphabetically?

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1

I’m using the Kirby List Field and was wondering whether there is a way to sort the output alphabetically? Its seems to me that sortBy()would not work in this context, is there an alternative way of doing this?

2

What are you storing in your list field? And what exactly do you want to sort? SortBy() works with any collection and you can turn any array into a collection, so that would indeed work.

3

Apologies, I want to sort alphabetically by name of the company. In the txt file it would look like

Clients: 

- Nike
- Adidas
- Reebok
- Under Armour

How can I turn it into a collection?

4

Easiest is just to sort the array:

$array = $page->clients()->yaml();
asort($array);
dump($array);

With a new Collection:

$collection = new Collection($page->clients()->yaml());
dump($collection->sort());
5

Thank you. How would I use I this in a foreach loop? Currently, I get the error:

asort() expects parameter 1 to be array, object given

<?php $array = $page->clients() ?>
<?php foreach(asort($array) as $client): ?>
    <div><?= $client->value() ?></div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
6

Try…

<?php 
$clients = $page->clients()->yaml();
asort($clients);
?>
<?php foreach($clients as $client): ?>
    <div><?= $client ?></div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

or you can use ->toStructure() instead and and sort on that, which is slicker in my opnion. See Here.