[funkydunk]

Little known secret shhhh...

but you can get it do do an ascending sort by price by adding a link to the product page with additional variable of:

&orderby=price

Job done

same goes with alphabetically

&orderby=product

Now for one site I just added a table into the top of the products.tpl such as:

{* custom mod *}
{if $products ne ""}
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center" colspan="4">
Sort by:
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">
Price
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">
Product Name
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">
Brand
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">
Date Added
</td>
</tr>
</table>




{/if}
{* end of custom mod *}

Now this uses the brand field in the database but xcart does not have that switched on as standard.

You will also need to add:

// funkydunk mod - added in so that sorting can carry forward across the pages
$smarty->assign("orderby",$orderby);

into the bottom of customer/products.php

and change navigation.tpl to the following so that the orderby variable is carried over to the next page:

{* $Id: navigation.tpl,v 1.6 2002/10/22 10:27:05 olga Exp $ *}
{if $total_pages gt 2}
<table cellpadding=0 border=0>
<tr height=14>
{section name=page loop=$total_pages start=1}
{if %page.index% eq 1}
<td>{$lng.lbl_result_pages}: </td>
{if $navigation_page gt 1}
<td valign=middle>[img]{$ImagesDir}/larrow.gif[/img]</td>
{/if}
{/if}
{if %page.index% eq $navigation_page}
<td align=center>
{%page.index%}
</td>
{else}
<td width=17 background="{$ImagesDir}/page.gif" align=center>
{%page.index%}
</td>
{/if}
{if %page.last%}
{capture name=total_pages_minus}
{math equation="pages-1" pages=$total_pages}
{/capture}
{if $navigation_page lt $smarty.capture.total_pages_minus}
<td valign=middle>[img]{$ImagesDir}/rarrow.gif[/img]</td>
{/if}
{/if}
{/section}
</tr></table>



{/if}