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Here’s how to order your data by two or more columns using PHP and MySQL

Order by Two Columns

Here’s how to order by more than one column. When ordering by more than one column, the second column is only used if the values are identical with the onces in the first column:

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column_name1, column_name2

Sort the display by Ascending or Descending Order

If you use the ORDER BY keyword, the sort-order of the recordset is ascending by default (1 before 9 and “a” before “p”).

Use the DESC keyword to specify a descending sort-order (9 before 1 and “p” before “a”):

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column_name DESC

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3 Responses to “PHP MySQL Order by Two Columns”

  • Thanks for the tip! Just to add, if you need to sort by two columns, one ascending and the other descending, then here’s how to do it:

    SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name1 DESC, column_name2 ASC

  • Rahul Dev Katarey

    hi, i need to use order by in other directions like : date desc and priority asc

    i used this : select * from tablename where category = ‘1′ order by date desc, priority asc limit 30

    this is not working right

    if use this :

    select * from tablename where category = ‘1′ order by priority, date desc limit 30

    this is working but i want date desc first then priority asc, how to do this please help

    rahul

  • actually I need first column descending and second column ascending, but its only working if i use first column ascending and second column descending.

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