Comments on: PHP MySQL Order by Two Columns

By: Mouli

Mouli — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:53:08 +0000

Thanks… Its Working…

By: plr store

plr store — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:36:05 +0000

Hello can’t we use ORDER BY DESC when using two column names?
like

ORDER BY column1, column2 DESC

it doesnt work.

By: prakash

prakash — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:19:57 +0000

Thanks a lot boss.

By: prakash

prakash — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:19:06 +0000

hanks a lot boss.

By: jsherk

jsherk — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:14:11 +0000

If you need to combine two columns first and then sort based on the combination, you can do this:

I have two columns `lastname` and `organization`. If one is filled then the other one is always empty. A normal SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY organization,lastname would list all the organizations first and then the lastnames second, but I wanted to intermix them, so I did this:

SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY CONCAT(organization,lastname)

This will combine the two columns for the ORDER BY without actually creating a new column, so that lastname SMITH would appear in between organization RESQ and organization TIMET.

By: Web Dizajn

Web Dizajn — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:29:18 +0000

if(!isset($_GET['sort'])==’ASC’){
$sort=’DESC’;
$sort_link=’ASC’;
$sort_link2=’ASC’;
}else{
$sort=’DESC’;//will be the defualt
$sort_link=’ASC’;
$sort_link2=’ASC’;

By: Complete osCommerce

Complete osCommerce — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:01:54 +0000

yes You are right.

if some values are same in column_1 then second sort will be applied between those values.

Thanks

By: Dudeson

Dudeson — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:04:20 +0000

Hi, is there a way to make mysql order by the first column (higher priority) followed by the second column (lower priority)? This is not the same as column_1, column_2 where it means only if column_1 is the same, column_2 will be checked? Can Group By be used in this regard? Thanks.

By: Rahul Dev Katarey

Rahul Dev Katarey — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:12:06 +0000

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

By: Rahul Dev Katarey

Rahul Dev Katarey — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:06:42 +0000

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