Suggestion: natsort()

[ekenberg]

Please consider using natsort() or something similar in the PHP frontend, when displaying lists of hosts etc. For instance, a list of hosts named www1, www2, ..., www100 should not be displayed as currently:

www1
www10
www100
www11
...

but instead
www1
www2
www3
...

The above is a real life example taken from my current drop down host list in /items.php, using Zabbix version 1.4.1

Thank you for continously improving Zabbix and listening to user requests, you're doing a great job!

[Foxi]

Patch to natsort

Hi,

I'm at present working on ZEC(Zabbix esay config) http://zec.woueb.fr
Natsorting is already included in ZEC next release.
Here some code to natsort from ZEC:

search the following line in files hosts.php, items.php ... :
$result=DBselect($sql);

After this line, add thes lines:

$sort_by = 'host'; // if you want to sort by host
$natsorted_array = array();
$all_hosts = array();
while($row=DBfetch($result)) {
$all_hosts[] = $row;
}
foreach($all_hosts as $key => $a_host) {
$natsorted_array[$key] = $a_host[$sort_by];
}
natsort($natsorted_array);
$natsorted_rows =array();
foreach($natsorted_array as $key => $value) {
$natsorted_rows[$key] = $all_hosts[$key];
}

Then search the following line and comment it or delete it :
// while($row=DBfetch($result))
and replace by :
foreach($natsorted_rows as $row)

I hope it will help you, or help Zabbix developpers.

Regards Salim Jendoubi