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I have 2 custom fields, program_month & program_year.

Example entries for these fields would be: April & 2010

In my template, I retrieve all of these entries and would like to sort them in chronological order, so I’d have something like:

January 2011
November 2010
October 2010
April 2010
February 2010
November 2009
September 2009
December 2008

You get the idea…

Thoughts on best way to accomplish? I don’t want to use a custom numeric sort field because these entries are filtered and span multiple templates/categories, so their order is really only related to these custom date fields.

You’re going to need a numeric sort, since January, February, etc. won’t sort right. You’d have to do some sort of text replacement or if statement to return January instead of 01, but you get the idea..

Does that help?

You’re going to need a numeric sort, since January, February, etc. won’t sort right. You’d have to do some sort of text replacement or if statement to return January instead of 01, but you get the idea..

Does that help?

As I said, the numeric sort won’t work in this case.

I can do this in PHP pretty easily with an associative array (Jan => 1, Feb => 2). I was wondering if EE had anything built-in or if anyone knew of any plugins that make this easier. For now, the client is just setting the actual EE date of entry to match the program’s date and that’s working ok.

Since you are working with month names instead of numerical months, using a PHP array or the entry_dates, as you have done, would be your best option.