[TYPO3-english] Viewhelper for Alphabetical Index

[Torsten Schrade]

Hi Dirk,

> I'm using extension news (tx_news) to build a catalog raisonné.
> I'd like to group all entries in list view by the first character 
> (alphabetical index).
> 
> Hiding all characters without matching entries would be nice.
> 
> Is there any Viewhelper or another trick to archieve that?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers Dirk

Now that's a funny coincidence… some months ago we did a catalogue 
raisonné extension for one of our digital humanities projects [1] and 
needed an alphabet ViewHelper for displaying alphabetical registers 
[2]. The ViewHelper is used in a f:for loop and segmentizes ordered 
lists of strings by comparing starting letter(s). It creates only 
letters for which there are entries. Here are two gists:

* Template: https://gist.github.com/tesselation/5888003
* ViewHelper: https://gist.github.com/tesselation/5888020

Maybe it's of some use to you. Have fun,
Torsten

[1] http://www.gluck-gesamtausgabe.de/gwv.html
[2] http://www.gluck-gesamtausgabe.de/gwv/werkregister.html