custom sort of the memberlist

[banjolawyer]

The hyperlink for listing members by a particular field is, for example

quote:
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http://xxx/forums/memberlist.php?s=&what=field1
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I have added three custom fields to my user table, and will display those on the memberlist. (For example, firstname, lastname, graduationyear)

I would like rewrite the hyperlink for the "members" button, so that, when clicked, the resulting list is sorted by
1st - graduationyear
2nd - lastname
3rd - firstname

Can anyone tell me what my hyperlink should look like?

[banjolawyer]

OK; I've determined that what I really should be changing in the code in memberlist.php

I did this:
$orderby=gradyear;

and it worked

However, I don't know the syntax for adding additional fields. Can anyone help me?

I've tried
$orderby=gradyear,lastname,firstname;
and
$orderby=gradyear and lastname and firstname;

And neither worked.

[Boofo]

Did you try

$orderby=gradyear&$orderby=lastname&$orderby=firstname

[banjolawyer]

That produced the following error:

Invalid SQL: SELECT *
FROM user,userfield
WHERE 1=1 AND
user.userid = userfield.userid
AND usergroupid NOT IN (1,3,4)
ORDER BY d`````a` ASC
LIMIT 0,1000
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '````a` ASC
LIMIT 0,1000' at line 6

mysql error number: 1064

[Boofo]

What is the full link you were using that worked? Adn what are the names of the fields you added to the db for the variables?

[banjolawyer]

The hyperlink to the memberlist is the standard link
http://mysite.net/forums/memberlist.php?s=

I added the following fields to the db:
gradyear
firstname
lastnameold
and I modified register.php and registeradult template to force new users to provide that info. I've tested that out, no problems there.

I changed code in memberlist.php from:

if ($orderby=="" or ($orderby!="username" and $orderby!="posts" and $orderby!="joindate" and $orderby!="lastpost")) {
$orderby=username;

to:

if ($orderby=="" or ($orderby!="username" and $orderby!="posts" and $orderby!="joindate" and $orderby!="lastpost" and $orderby!="lastnameold")) {
$orderby=gradyear;

and that works fine also, but it only sorts by gradyear.

I am displaying the memberlist
1st column gradyear
2nd column lastnameold
3rd column firstname
4th column username
etc.

When I signup test users from the same year, Jones and Adams from 1988 are listed before the 1992 people, but Jones gets listed before Adams.

[Boofo]

I'm just guessing here but see if this will work.

if ($orderby=="" or ($orderby!="username" and $orderby!="posts" and $orderby!="joindate" and $orderby!="lastpost" and $orderby!="lastnameold")) {
$orderby=gradyear;
$orderby=lastnameold;
$$orderby=firstname;
$orderby=username;

or however order you wanted. Let me know if this does anything.

[banjolawyer]

What happens here is that it just skips right down to the last orderby and sorts by the username. Thanks for your help. I am going to give up for the day.