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Using the new alpha Index

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Georgios Papadakis
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29 January 2012
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The new alpha-index is nothing like what we had before, now we don't have characters, but instead we have character entities which can be:

support for default Alpha-index per Language via new strings in language files
supports character 'entities'
-- ranges
-- aggregations
-- aliases (and a hardcoded alias is # for 0-9 numbers)
-- combinations of the above
support utf8 characters in the MySQL query for all in (2) (above)
allow custom per category Alpha-Index while being able to maintain multi language ability
option to skip unused characters (they not displayed)
new category option to allow a custom separator to be used, instead of boxes around characters
comprehensive and detailed description on-line help (popup balloons) in category editor For ALPHA-INDEX usage
ability of alpha-index to work with joomla cache enabled
Some css fixes and classes added, like highlighting for current alpha index character (entity)

TIP 1: Open a category description to see learn how to use via the on-line help. TIP 2: Edit your language files to have a custom per language alpha-index (you can override in category editor and the use copy parameters to update many categories)