Adding email sort to com_contact admin - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support

i have joomla site group uses com_contact getting email appropriate people within group (president, activities, ...) there 60 email contacts used, route 30 individual email address. unfortunately members email addresses tend change , searching through list of contacts find occurrences of changed email address tedious. came following hack of com_contact allow viewing , sorting email address in admin contact manager.

i added following 3 code edits
/administrator/components/com_contact/admin.contact.html.php
first @ (or about) line 64

code: select all

               <th class="title">
                  <?php echo jhtml::_('grid.sort',   'name', 'cd.name', @$lists['order_dir'], @$lists['order'] ); ?>
               </th>
               <?php /* beginnewcodeedit */ ?>
               <th class="title" nowrap="nowrap">
                  <?php echo jhtml::_('grid.sort',   'email', 'cd.email_to', @$lists['order_dir'], @$lists['order'] ); ?>
               </th>
               <?php /* endnewcodeedit */ ?>
               <th width="5%" class="title" nowrap="nowrap">
                  <?php echo jhtml::_('grid.sort',   'published', 'cd.published', @$lists['order_dir'], @$lists['order'] ); ?>
               </th>


then @ (or about) line 102

code: select all

            $published    = jhtml::_('grid.published', $row, $i );
               /* beginnewcodeedit */
            $email  = $row->email_to;
               /* endnewcodeedit */

            $row->cat_link    = jroute::_( 'index.php?option=com_categories&section=com_contact_details&task=edit&type=other&cid[]='. $row->catid );


and @ (or about) line 126

code: select all

                  <a href="<?php echo $link; ?>">
                     <?php echo $row->name; ?></a> </span>
                  <?php
               endif;
               ?>
               </td>
               <?php /* beginnewcodeedit */ ?>
               <td>
                  <?php echo $email;?>
               </td>
               <?php /* endnewcodeedit */ ?>
               <td align="center">
                  <?php echo $published;?>
               </td>


i have shown few lines above , below additions give reference. line numbers reference original code (joomla version 1.5.10)

this seems work well, wondered if there better way...

thanks,
david