Sorting categories in Magento according to the position in admin

Question

I would like to know how to sort this list of categories (I followed this tutorial here http://www.devinrolsen.com/magento-custom-category-listing-block/) in magento by posi

Answer 1

I strongly suggest to lok here first http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/magento-for-dev-part-8-varien-data-collections and also other articles in knowledge base are a must read for any magento dev.

addAttributeToSort('yourfield', 'desc')->getCollection()->getChildren();
$catIds = explode(',',$cats);
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