Re: [SM-USERS] How do I sort Search Results by descending date?

On 4/5/11 1:03 AM, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>
> Steve Giessler-2 wrote:
>> On 4/4/11 4:19 PM, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>>> Steve Giessler-2 wrote:
>>>> Dear fellow Squirrelmail admins,
>>>>
>>>> I have SM 1.4.21 installed on Debian and after spending quite a bit of
>>>> time searching all over for the answer I decided to post the question to
>>>> this list. Whenever someone does a Search in SM, the Search Results
>>>> window gives the results sorted by date in ASCENDING order (oldest to
>>>> newest) but users would prefer these results to be sorted by date in
>>>> DESCENDING order (newest to oldest).
>>>>
>>>> How can I make that happen without rewriting the .php code? Is there an
>>>> option to change that or a plugin that will allow me to do that? I could
>>>> not find it.  BTW - server side sorting is enabled and I use the latest
>>>> stable Exim and Dovecot IMAP with Maildir format if that matters (and
>>>> PHP 5.2.16-0.dotdeb.0 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7)
>>>>
>>> SquirrelMail does not use SORT extension in search. Search results are
>>> not
>>> sorted. They are listed in the way IMAP server returns them and results
>>> look
>>> like sorted by arrival date. Newer arrivals get higher UIDs.
>>>
>>> Order can be reversed with one line of code in functions/imap_search.php.
>>> Same function can be modified to use SORT extension.
>>>
>> Tomas,
>>
>> Any chance you or someone can tell me what that one line of code might be?
>>
> ----
> tomas@miri:/home/www/mail.topolis.inet/www/squirrelmail-1.4.21/functions$
> diff -u imap_search.php.orig imap_search.php
> --- imap_search.php.orig	2011-04-05 07:56:27.000000000 +0300
> +++ imap_search.php	2011-04-05 07:56:48.000000000 +0300
> @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@
>       }
>       $issent = ($mailbox == $sent_folder);
>
> +    $id = array_reverse($id);
> +
>       $msgs = fillMessageArray($imapConnection,$id,$cnt);
>
>       return $msgs;
> -----
>
> functions/imap_search.php, near the end of file. + indicates added lines.

Tomas,

Thank you so much for your helped. That worked beautifully!

Steve