How to sort using MySQL's ORDER BY clause in PHP

In MySQL, the ORDER BY clause can be used with the SELECT statement to sort data for a specific field in order; it can sort the result set in ascending or descending order. Let's take you through a brief introduction to the basic method of sorting using MySQL's ORDER BY clause in PHP. I hope it will be helpful to you.

Basic syntax

Basic syntax for the ORDER BY clause:

SELECT  字段名 FROM 表名 ORDER BY 字段名 ASC/DESC（升序或降序）

Note: In the ORDER BY clause, ASC is the default and can be omitted, indicating ascending order. [Recommended related video tutorials: MySQL Video Tutorial]

##Usage Example

The following is a data table "demo", which contains three fields: name, age, sex. We introduce the use of ORDER BY clause through a simple example.

1. Simply sort by the age field in ascending order

<?php
header("content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8");
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "mydb"); //连接数据库
mysqli_set_charset($link,"utf8");
if($link === false){ 
    die("ERROR: Could not connect. "  
                . mysqli_connect_error()); 
} 
  
$sql = "SELECT * FROM demo ORDER BY age"; 
if($res = mysqli_query($link, $sql)){ 
    if(mysqli_num_rows($res) > 0){ 
        echo "<table>"; 
            echo "<tr>"; 
            echo "<th>name</th>"; 
            echo "<th>age</th>"; 
            echo "<th>sex</th>"; 
            echo "</tr>"; 
        while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($res)){ 
            echo "<tr>"; 
                echo "<td>" . $row[&#39;name&#39;] . "</td>"; 
                echo "<td>" . $row[&#39;age&#39;] . "</td>"; 
                echo "<td>" . $row[&#39;sex&#39;] . "</td>"; 
            echo "</tr>"; 
        } 
        echo "</table>"; 
        mysqli_free_result($res); 
    } else{ 
        echo "找不到匹配的记录。"; 
    } 
} else{ 
    echo "错误：无法执行 $sql. " . mysqli_error($link); 
} 
mysqli_close($link); 
?>

Output:

Code description:

The "res" variable stores the data returned by the function mysql_query().

Every time mysqli_fetch_array() is called, it returns the next row from the res() set.

The while loop is used to traverse all rows of the table "demo".

2. Use the object-oriented method to sort in descending order through the ORDER BY clause

<?php
header("content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8");
$link = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "", "mydb"); 
mysqli_set_charset($link,"utf8");
if($link === false){ 
    die("ERROR: Could not connect. "  
                . mysqli_connect_error()); 
} 
  
$sql = "SELECT * FROM demo ORDER BY age DESC"; 
if($res = mysqli_query($link, $sql)){ 
    if(mysqli_num_rows($res) > 0){ 
        echo "<table>"; 
            echo "<tr>"; 
            echo "<th>name</th>"; 
            echo "<th>age</th>"; 
            echo "<th>sex</th>"; 
            echo "</tr>"; 
        while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($res)){ 
            echo "<tr>"; 
                echo "<td>" . $row[&#39;name&#39;] . "</td>"; 
                echo "<td>" . $row[&#39;age&#39;] . "</td>"; 
                echo "<td>" . $row[&#39;sex&#39;] . "</td>"; 
            echo "</tr>"; 
        } 
        echo "</table>"; 
        mysqli_free_result($res); 
    } else{ 
        echo "找不到匹配的记录。"; 
    } 
} else{ 
    echo "错误：无法执行 $sql. "  . mysqli_error($link); 
} 
mysqli_close($link); 
?>

Output:

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