Combining contenttypes in setcontent

[Dorien]

Hi!

I have a contenttype news and blog. Those two i would like to combine in a list (ordered by date) on the homepage. But the setcontent only gives a array for 1 contenttype. How could i combine two contenttypes in setcontent?

~ Dorien

[Dorien]

Boooyaaaah! We did it!

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{% setcontent newsItems = "nieuws-item/latest/3" %}
{% setcontent blogItems = "blog-item/latest/3" %}
{% set newsBlogItems = newsItems %}
{% set newsBlogItems = newsBlogItems|merge(blogItems) %}

{% for newsBlogItem in newsBlogItems %}
    {{newsBlogItem.title}}<Br>
{% endfor %}

[jhice]

Great

I was typing a reply to use the Bolt search, while couldn't remember where I see this concept of merging...
It's in the Twig filters :
http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/filters/merge.html

Thanks for finding it

[Dorien]

Or at least now i have a combined array, but still has to ordered on date. And this is a tricky part. Since the sort filter does not order on date.

[jhice]

The setcontent can order by date : https://docs.bolt.cm/content-fetching (Ordering the results).
But when merging your results with Twig you will mix different orderings...

I dont know if you should do a Twig extension or do a custom query with Doctrine from Bolt
Or something else ^^

[Dorien]

We did it!

We have added a twig filter in the src/Bolt/TwigExtension.php. But now we have edited the source code of bolt, so we get in trouble when updating. Is there a special place for our own twig extensions?

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new \Twig_SimpleFilter('datesort', array($this, 'datesort'))

   public function datesort($array)
    {
        usort($array, function ($a, $b) {
            $first = new \DateTime($a->values['datepublish']);
            $second = new \DateTime($b->values['datepublish']);

            if ($first < $second) {
                return 1;
            } elseif ($first > $second) {
                return -1;
            }

            return 0;
        });

        return $array;
    }