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I want to sort multiple columns in Laravel 4 by using the method orderBy() in Laravel Eloquent. The query will be generated using Eloquent like this:

SELECT *
FROM mytable
ORDER BY
  coloumn1 DESC, coloumn2 ASC

How can I do this?

miken32
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Sophy
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5 Answers5

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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
rmobis
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    It would be nice if we could pass an array like: `User::orderBy(array('name'=>'desc', 'email'=>'asc'))` – JoshuaDavid Oct 07 '14 at 04:24
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    @FireCoding, you can do `$user->orders = array(array('column' => 'name', 'direction' => 'desc'), array('column' => 'email', 'direction' => 'asc'));` – rmobis Oct 07 '14 at 04:47
  • Is there a way to add an orderBy on an established query? – Rafael Jan 16 '15 at 21:43
  • @Rafael, if you haven't already ran it (called `get` or `first`), just call `orderBy` on it. Else, nope. – rmobis Jan 17 '15 at 06:33
  • Otherwise, if you always need to order by desc, then you can use latest() too. – ssi-anik Mar 10 '16 at 20:51
  • In this article https://lavalite.org/blog/using-orderby-for-multiple-columns-laravel said we can use `User::orderBy(array('name'=>'desc', 'email'=>'asc'))`. But i got error `stripos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given`. Why? @rmobis – Ray Coder Oct 27 '20 at 07:09
  • @RayCoder I wouldn't know. Neither the method I posted here nor the one on the article seem to be present on the official documentation and the API page for Laravel 4 (which is where I found it at first) is no longer up. However, my guess would be that the article's method doesn't work, and it couldn't. Because `orderBy` needs to know the order of the columns it was given, and it can't do that when you use string keys, as `['a' => 1, 'b' => 1]` is the same as `['b' => 1, 'a' => 1]`. – rmobis Oct 27 '20 at 09:24
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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 :)

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Use order by like this:

return User::orderBy('name', 'DESC')
    ->orderBy('surname', 'DESC')
    ->orderBy('email', 'DESC')
    ...
    ->get();
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  • That is what I do , but in my case I would like that if two users have the same surname, the corresponding entries respect the naming order . Any Ideas? – Berni Oct 06 '22 at 15:02
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    @Berni, the order you add your `orderBy` it should get executed. So, `order by surname asc, name desc` or something like that should be in your query. so your eloquent should be written in that order as well! – ssi-anik May 30 '23 at 01:26
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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 = $userRepository->findAll([], [], ['name', 'DESC', 'email', 'ASC'], 100);
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$this->data['user_posts'] = User_posts::with(['likes', 'comments' => function($query) { $query->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC'); }])->where('status', 1)->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')->get();
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