DPL:Manual - DPL parameters: Controlling output order

ordermethod

ordermethod

Determines what criterium (resp. criteria) is (resp. are) used to order the list.

Syntax:

ordermethod=method1,method2,... means ordered by method1 first, then by method2, etc. (like the ORDER clause in SQL)

methodN can be one of the following single tokens:

categoryadd

outputs list based on most recent addition to the first category (requires to include one category and one only using 'category' parameter)

counter

outputs list based on the number of times the page has been viewed (by ~popularity)

size

outputs list based on the size of the article (bytes of wiki text)

firstedit

outputs list based on first edit to the pages (creation)

lastedit

outputs list based on most recent edit to the pages

pagetouched

outputs list based on 'page_touched' timestamp. Read comment on page_touched field in Page_table to see the difference from most recent edit by an author.

title

outputs list sorted by article (prefix +) title — (default)

titlewithoutnamespace

outputs list sorted by the article name regardless of namespace

methodN can also be one of the following token combinations (see also headingmode option):

category,firstedit

outputs list sorted by category, then by first edit

category,lastedit

outputs list sorted by category, then by last edit within a category

category,pagetouched

outputs list sorted by category, then by pagetouched

category,sortkey

user,firstedit

outputs list sorted by user, then by firstedit by the user

user,lastedit

outputs list sorted by user, then by lastedit by the user

Example:

<DPL>
  category=Africa
  ordermethod=lastedit
</DPL>

This list will output pages that have [[Category:Africa]] showing most recently edited articles at the top.

order

order

Controls the sort direction of the list.

Example:

order=orderdirection

orderdirection can be one of:

• descending — outputs list from most recent to least recent
• ascending — outputs list from least recent to most recent — (default)

Example:

<DPL>
  category    = Africa
  ordermethod = lastedit
  order       = ascending
  addeditdate = true
</DPL>

This list will output pages that have [[Category:Africa]] shown ordered from oldest to newest. In addition the edit date will be presented with each article.

ordercollation

ordercollation

Allow individual collations, make case insensitive sorting possible

Example:

ordercollation=latin1_german_ci

You may want to try latin1_swedish_ci or other collation mapping table names as well.

If you use a name for the first time you should set debug=4. This will help you to see the SQL code and SQL error messages in case the name you used is not available in that MySQL installation.