Sorting a tag array and ouputting the first letter for each tag

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Hello,
my question: I want to retrieve all tags used on the page (guess I could do that with $tags = $site->children()->pluck('tags', ',', true);) and then looping over them, sort them alphabetically ($sorted = a::sort($tags, 'title', 'asc');) in sections each starting with their first letter (how?), eg:

A
---
Aaa tag
Abb tag
Acc tag

B
---
Baa tag
Bbb tag
Bcc tag

// and so on ..

I also found this plugin but do I really need two plugins to be installed … isn’t there another way as of Kirby 2.5.6?

Thank you very much, any pointing in the right direction helps!

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I’d suggest to create an collection from your array first and then use group()on it:

<?php
$tags = $site->index()->pluck('tags', ',', true);
sort($tags)
$collection = new Collection($tags);
$groupedItems = $collection->group(function($item){
  return substr($item, 0, 1);
});
dump($groupedItems);
 ?>

Then you can loop through the collection like here in the docs:
https://getkirby.com/docs/toolkit/api/collection/group

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Since I always see this: when can you omit the Kirby function first letter?

sort($tags) = a::sort($tags) ??
4

sort() is a standard PHP function; a::sort() is a method of the toolkit’s A class. Two different things.

5

I can totally use this, too - nice one.

Maybe that might be interesting for kirby secrets - what’s your opinion on this, @jenstornell?

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I’m planning to integrate a section with short code snippets/tips and tricks in the docs in the future. So something like this might find its way into it.

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