CDate sorting order in blog (patch) about plugin-blog

[leonbottou]

Formatting messed up the patch. Sending again.

diff --git a/lib/plugins/blog/helper.php b/lib/plugins/blog/helper.php
index 7ff9c0a..d669911 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/blog/helper.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/blog/helper.php
@@ -82,13 +82,13 @@ class helper_plugin_blog extends DokuWiki_Plugin {
             $draft = ($meta['type'] == 'draft');
             if ($draft && ($perm < AUTH_CREATE)) continue;

-            if ($this->sort == 'mdate') {
-                $date = $meta['date']['modified'];
-                if (!$date) $date = filemtime(wikiFN($id));
-            } else {
-                $date = $meta['date']['created'];
+            $date = $meta['date']['modified'];
+            if (!$date) $date = filemtime(wikiFN($id));
+            if ($this->sort == 'cdate') {
+                $cdate = $meta['date']['created'];
+                if (!$cdate) $cdate = filectime(wikiFN($id));
                 // prefer the date further in the past:
-                if (!$date) $date = min(filectime(wikiFN($id)), filemtime(wikiF
+               $date = min($date, $cdate);
             }

             $title = $meta['title'];

[michitux]

I've finally applied this patch, I've just modified it such that when $this->sort is not mdate the creation date is returned in the post items and is used for sorting the posts when no valid sort option is specified which was the previous behavior.