How to change home page to list of recently added books?

[dunxd]

I'd like it if the initial view of index.php showed the most recently added books. That would be a bit more like walking into a real world library.

I figured I might be able to do this by editing index.php line 24:

$page     = getURLParam('page', Base::PAGE_INDEX);

The different pages are listed in lib/Base.php so I could just replace PAGE_INDEX with PAGE_ALL_RECENT_BOOKS. However, this isn't doing it - I still get the list of Author, Title etc.

I am struggling to get my head around the flow of the code to see where I can change the behaviour. Has anyone else managed to do this?

If I can get this working, then I can make the home page view configurable by adding a key to the $config array.

[mikespub]

The default start page is also defined separately in file lib/JSON_renderer.php function getJson() = same code on line 204 there.

This gets called via the getJSON.php URL by your browser if you use client-side rendering (=default), or by serverSideRender() in the index.php itself otherwise.

[mikespub]

Included in mikespub-org@35bcb8c and tag 1.4.1 at https://github.com/mikespub-org/seblucas-cops