Sorting ClientAlerts?

[ShaunR]

I'm looking for a simple way to get the worst severity from the template variable $ClientAlerts. Any idea's on how I can do this without a looping over the collection and comparing each severity with the others?

https://docs.whmcs.com/classes/7.4/WHMCS/User/Alert.html

https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/collections

[brian!]

On 12/4/2017 at 18:35, ShaunR said:

I'm looking for a simple way to get the worst severity from the template variable $ClientAlerts. Any idea's on how I can do this without a looping over the collection and comparing each severity with the others?

I can't think of a simple way other than looping... if WHMCS had designed the severity values as numbers (0=danger, 1=warning, 2=info etc) rather than strings, then you could just have sorted the collection by the value... but they didn't, and so sorting alphabetically would just give you an order of : DANGER -> INFO -> WARNING (or the reverse) - neither option would give you the result that you are looking for.

... and I think that v7.4 uses v5.4 of the Laravel docs rather than 5.2 - but if i'm wrong on that, hopefully one of the WHMCS guys will correct me.

 

[ShaunR]

WHMCS can you guys shed some light on if any type of sorting is done to $ClientAlerts?

I'm curious as to why alerts with a higher severity are not being shown first.

[brian!]

3 hours ago, ShaunR said:

I'm curious as to why alerts with a higher severity are not being shown first.

every example i've ever seen in the client area has been sorted alphabetically ascending by severity - so danger, info, warning.

[ShaunR]

Anybody else who would like to see ClientAlerts sorted by severity, showing the worst first, please upvote and comment on this request...

 

https://requests.whmcs.com/topic/sort-template-variable-clientalerts-by-severity