Thanks mgpw4me. That makes perfect sense. I'll just let that one go for now
Two other things I'd love to get some tips on, both regarding side panels:
1) First off, I want to get them to sort by count, instead of by name. Thus a director panel would be ordered by number of movies in my database instead of alphabetically. I swear this should be a simple tweak of the panel template code and how the keys/values are sorted, but I've yet to be able to get it to work.
EDIT: I finally figured this one out -- needed to edit the mdp_panel.inc and change the following line in the sort_categories function:
$keys = array_keys($categories);
sort($categories);
to
ksort($categories);
arsort($categories);
$keys = array_keys($categories);
I then create a second function and a second class that allows the panel to be sorted this way. Yippee.
2) When you select a subset of data, say showing all the films that have the genre of "horror", the side panel for directors stays with the same set of names that it has for the entire movie collection. So, if I have 10 James Cameron films in my database and then select "horror", instead of showing me the directors with the most horror movies, it would just keep Cameron on there with a "0" next to his name, since he has no horror movies. You can click on my database if this makes no sense (
http://botez.byethost9.com/index.php?genre=Horror) to see what I'm talking about.
I'd like to find a way to be able to get the side panel to update when you drill down into genres/years/etc.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
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