Add PageFinder support for finding pages and sorting pages by field value length

[Toutouwai]

Short description of the enhancement

It would be nice enhancement to PageFinder selectors if we could match pages by the length of a field value, or sort by the length of a field value.

Example:

// Find pages whose title length is greater than 10 characters
$items = $pages->find("title.length>10");

There was a question about this in the forum: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/26372-search-by-the-number-of-characters-in-the-title-of-the-page-with-selector/

And I remember a situation in the past where I would have liked to sort results by the length of the path (when PagePaths is installed):

$longest_path = $pages->get("foo=bar, sort=-path.length");

[adrianbj]

@ryancramerdesign - I would also love to see this feature - being able to filter by length would be an excellent performance boost. Currently I have to loop through thousands of results and continue if the min length isn't met for a specific field.

Thanks for considering.

[BernhardBaumrock]

@adrianbj check out this forum thread with two possible workarounds: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/29279-selectsort-by-text-length/