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I’ve not had a chance to work with it yet.  I assumed it wasn’t a host issue, seeing as how Eric is using Engine Hosting.

Chris

Chris - what hosting provider are you using?

I use InMotion Hosting and have not had any hosting-related problems with EE thus far.

Chris

Guy,
please check your email

erfi75- I dropped you an email, would like to take a closer look at one of these.  Like John Henry- I can’t replicate.  I believe I’ve spotted the code in question- I’ll post at the end for the curious.  But that said- it should be changing that ‘1’ for the sort order as it cycles through.  It does for mine.  The fact the server seems to be in play is even more curious.  Nothing in the code really suggests that would be the case.

Anyway- we’re working on getting this cleared up for you folks.  Sorry for the delay.

And for the uber-geeks:

foreach($query->result_array() as $row)
        {        
            $this->cat_update[$row['cat_id']]  = array($row['parent_id'], '1', $row['cat_name']);
        }
         
        $order = 0;
        
        foreach($this->cat_update as $key => $val) 
        {
            if (0 == $val['0'])
            {    
                $order++;
                $this->cat_update[$key]['1'] = $order;
                $this->process_subcategories($key);  // Sends parent_id
            }
        }

K- erfi75, I’m not as up on your data and such as you are.  But how’s it look now?  Just looking at the db table, I’m getting changes like I’d expect- where I wasn’t before.  But some conformation by someone else would be handy.

Hi Robin,

Yes, the categories do seem to be displaying alphabetically now (definitely different from what I was getting before).

May I ask, how’d you do that?!

Thanks,
Eric

Yes I’d like to know what you did too and what others having the issue need to do?

Thanks!

Guy

😉  Sorry- had to run to dog class.

I was thinking it was possibly a php 4 issue- but erfi75 is running 5.1.6, so….  I need to poke still to figure out why it fails.  It’s not immediately obvious to me.  But- process of elimination- for now I tweaked the process_category_group (in system/ee/controllers/cp/admin_content.php) a la:

$this->process_subcategories($key);  // Sends parent_id
changed to 
$this->process_subcategories($key, $this->cat_update);  // Sends parent_id

Then the process_subcategories changed to:

function process_subcategories($parent_id, $carray)
{
    if ( ! $this->cp->allowed_group('can_access_admin') OR ! $this->cp->allowed_group('can_access_content_prefs'))
    {
        show_error($this->lang->line('unauthorized_access'));
    }
        
    $order = 0;

    foreach($carray as $key => $val) 
    {
        if ($parent_id == $val['0'])
        {
            $order++;
            $this->cat_update[$key]['1'] = $order;                                                
            $this->process_subcategories($key, $this->cat_update);
        }
    }
}

I want to poke it in the morning so I’m firm on why the original code had issues.  But we’ll definitely get a fix in for this.  I just like knowing exactly why it flaked out before I commit it.

And thanks for the test environment, erfi75.  Saved loads of time.

Will this be rolled into a future build - and will someone let us know when it is available?

Thanks!

Guy

Guy, once the final fix is determined this will be in a future build.

Thanks - I appreciate all the help from the EE team!

Guy

Was a weird one!  And yep- we’ll get a formal fix in.

Thanks to everyone involved in noticing and troubleshooting this issue. I’m happy to hear that it’s being resolved in a future build.

Cheers,
Eric

Thank you for you contribution, everybody. Please don’t hesitate to post again in case there’s anything else.