TGPX Question(s)

[Toby]

You have to do it in two sections. First for the new, then for the filler, in order to be able to specify different sort order parameters for the two. That's where the fillvar comes into play for the second section, so that it can compute the number of fill galleries needed based on how many new were found in the first section.

Visibly it will appear to be one section, but it requires two separate sections of code in the template.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Toby

You have to do it in two sections. First for the new, then for the filler, in order to be able to specify different sort order parameters for the two. That's where the fillvar comes into play for the second section, so that it can compute the number of fill galleries needed based on how many new were found in the first section.

Visibly it will appear to be one section, but it requires two separate sections of code in the template.

Isn't that what this is?

<table style="text-align:center;" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
{* Load 52 galleries *}
{galleries
var=$galleries
type=permanent
format=any
getnew=true
allowused=false
description=true
preview=true
amount=52
previewsize=180x180
category=Latina
sponsor=any
order=date_approved DESC
reorder=date_approved DESC}

{* Load filler galleries if 52 galleries were not available in the previous galleries section *}
{galleries
var=$fillergalleries
fillvar=$galleries
type=permanent
format=any
getnew=true
allowused=true
description=true
preview=true
amount=52
previewsize=180x180
category=Latina
sponsor=any
order=RAND()
reorder=RAND()}

{* Place the filler galleries at the end *}
{intermix var=$galleries from=$galleries,$fillergalleries location=end}

{* Display loaded galleries as thumbnails in a 4 per row format *}
{foreach from=$galleries var=$gallery counter=$counter}
<td align="center" valign="top" style="text-align:center;" width="25%">
<a href="{$gallery.gallery_url|htmlspecialchars}" title="{$gallery.description|htmlspecialchars}"><img src="{$gallery.preview_url|htmlspecialchars}" width="180" height="180" border="2" alt="{$gallery.description|htmlspecialchars}"></a><br><br>
</td>
{insert counter=$counter location=+4 max=48}
</tr><tr>
{/insert}
{/foreach}
</tr>
</table>

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Isn't that what this is?

Yeah, that matches the example given in the documentation.

All I can figure at this point is that the sort order from the new section is somehow overriding the merged order.

[Greenguy]

Unfortunately, I agree