hello flibustier,

thanks for your compliment

It is not directlty possible to have both letter bars, but this wont be much difficult to add as custom work.

yes, it is possible to change the shape (it's all CSS, my friend )

year of creation is not an option of the search, but again, this can be easily included by small code add-ons

please let me know any other soubts you may have

all the best,
Germi

Thank you for quick answer!

Hello, Germi!

I bought Music Collection and install at localhost for test.

Could you, please, tell me which files I should change with my srewdriver
to get two A-Z search and year search for albums.

Thanks.

sure. let's start with the A-Z bar

(I asume you have basic PHP knowledge)

I was going to explain how to create the AZ bar in russian, but finally I decided it was too hard to explain, so I made it myself :lol:

so I made the function for you , all you have to do now is call it.

here's the thing: copy the attached file on the folder /components/com_muscol/helpers/

(unzip it first)
[file name=helpers.zip size=2270]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/helpers.zip[/file]

the file in it, helpers.php, has to replace the existing one you'll have in this folder.

now open it with your editor. go to line 144. you'll find this:

$inicials = array("A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z","123");
		
$inicials_russian = array("1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z","123");

as you see, I duplicate the array containing the letters in the bar, and I named it "$inicials_russian". I replaced the first characters for 1, 2, 3 etc. that's because I dont have the russian alphabet but here's where you'll have to replace all this characters for the russian ones. do you understand?

ok, now I asume this is done. the only step left is to call a new function I created so the bar is also rendered in russian.

open file /components/com_muscol/views/artists/tmpl/detailed.php (I asume you use detailed view)

at the very beginning you'll find this:

if($this->params->get('showletternavigation')){
		echo MusColHelper::letter_navigation($this->letter);
	}

here is where the alph bar is printed. well, we just need to add the russian one, too. so replace this piece of code for this one:

if($this->params->get('showletternavigation')){
		echo MusColHelper::letter_navigation($this->letter);
		
		echo MusColHelper::letter_navigation_russian($this->letter);
	}

as you see, I'm also calling the new function made SPECIALLY FOR YOU!! called letter_navigation_russian

ok! we're almost done. one last step. you'll have to add the calling to this function to ALL the view of Music Collection :S :lol: that's about 10 files or so. wich ones? well..

/components/com_muscol/views/artist/tmpl/default.php
/components/com_muscol/views/artist/tmpl/grid.php
/components/com_muscol/views/artist/tmpl/detailed.php

/components/com_muscol/views/album/tmpl/default.php

/components/com_muscol/views/song/tmpl/default.php

/components/com_muscol/views/search/tmpl/default.php
/components/com_muscol/views/search/tmpl/detailed.php
/components/com_muscol/views/search/tmpl/grid.php
/components/com_muscol/views/search/tmpl/songs.php

/components/com_muscol/views/songs/tmpl/detailed.php

I hope I'm not missing any

and that's all for having a russian alphabet bar, folks!

hope you understand everything. if you dont, let me know

tomorrow we'll go ahead with the YEAR search thing, now I gotta go!
best,
Germi

Wow!!!

This is wonderful!!!!

THANK YOU!!!

you're much welcomed

that's what you call fast & efficient support!

let me know if everything works as expected! I'd like to see the result on your site

Germi

Of course, I will send you a link of complete work.

Good night and great thanks.

I am

Hello, Germi,


It's a pity but this version with two A-Z toolbars doesn't work properly.
I didn't ask you, cause I wanted to be shure I'd done no mistake.

As a result a have now two A-Z which work both at the same time. In an attachment you'll see how it looks like.

Sorry for desturbing you.

yes, I know! wasn't this what you wanted? two bars?

if you want only one bar... no problem! a small modification on the file I posted will be enough. but first, post the link... (I can't see it!)

Germi

Yes, I want two.
My site is on localhost in my computer.
I send you a screenshot

Oj, what a technic troubles today.
I cant attach a picture.

let's see: the letter that does below is just that does not have space to fit on the bar, you should give the bar more space (in your template)

one question: how many characters are in Russian? I mean, there is an equivalency between each character (A, B, C) to an russian one? (the solution I gave you was assuming that the number of chars where exactly the same)

did you try the other letters? do they show results? I tested on my localhost and it worked fine... are you sure you have some artist under these letters?

by the way, the breadcrumb still shows "B" because the change I made was for letterbar only, not for breadcrumb. for breadcrumb you'll need extra coding. let's first solve the first issue and then we'll go ahead with breadcrumbs

There are 33 letters in Russian.
)

First I went to administrator/components/muscol/... form.php and add russian letters. Than I add one artist for testing. Bot russian toolbar worked like English but with Russian letters. It shows me result of Englis list of atists.

ok, first think: do not add letters in form.php, because these wont be recognized in the frontend.

the problem is that there are more letters in russian than in english

in this case, the russian bar has to work independently of english one, not like he solution I gave, wich makes they work together.

so, what you want is that ALL russian characters are different than english ones, right? not like it is now, that when you select a letter from a letterbar, the equivalent letter on the other letterbar is selected... is that right?

if that's the case, tell me and I'll think a solution for this.

Germi

You are absolutely right!
Thank you. I hope this task isn't problem to you

ok, let me a couple of days to set thinks right. I'll tell you something tomorrow

Germi

OK, I'm not in a hurry.

For me this is just the first case when I need to change in a code that a lot.

Thank you

This is wonderful!!!!

But Under this theme, simplicity, write a separate article. In the forum to read hard!