How to Use Order By for Multiple Columns in Laravel 4?
Simply invoke orderBy()
as many times as you need it. For instance:
User::orderBy('name', 'DESC')
->orderBy('email', 'ASC')
->get();
Produces the following query:
SELECT * FROM `users` ORDER BY `name` DESC, `email` ASC
You can do as @rmobis has specified in his answer, [Adding something more into it]
Using order by
twice:
MyTable::orderBy('coloumn1', 'DESC')
->orderBy('coloumn2', 'ASC')
->get();
and the second way to do it is,
Using raw order by
:
MyTable::orderByRaw("coloumn1 DESC, coloumn2 ASC");
->get();
Both will produce same query as follow,
SELECT * FROM `my_tables` ORDER BY `coloumn1` DESC, `coloumn2` ASC
As @rmobis specified in comment of first answer you can pass like an array to order by column like this,
$myTable->orders = array(
array('column' => 'coloumn1', 'direction' => 'desc'),
array('column' => 'coloumn2', 'direction' => 'asc')
);
one more way to do it is iterate
in loop,
$query = DB::table('my_tables');
foreach ($request->get('order_by_columns') as $column => $direction) {
$query->orderBy($column, $direction);
}
$results = $query->get();
Hope it helps :)
Here's another dodge that I came up with for my base repository class where I needed to order by an arbitrary number of columns:
public function findAll(array $where = [], array $with = [], array $orderBy = [], int $limit = 10)
{
$result = $this->model->with($with);
$dataSet = $result->where($where)
// Conditionally use $orderBy if not empty
->when(!empty($orderBy), function ($query) use ($orderBy) {
// Break $orderBy into pairs
$pairs = array_chunk($orderBy, 2);
// Iterate over the pairs
foreach ($pairs as $pair) {
// Use the 'splat' to turn the pair into two arguments
$query->orderBy(...$pair);
}
})
->paginate($limit)
->appends(Input::except('page'));
return $dataSet;
}
Now, you can make your call like this:
$allUsers = $userRepository->findAll([], [], ['name', 'DESC', 'email', 'ASC'], 100);