Comments on: MySQL ORDER BY FIELD – Custom Field Sorting

By: Vijay Shankar

Vijay Shankar — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:50:05 +0000

Awesome options and THANKs.. this is a good option to sort the records in ascending or descending order and have the exceptional values that is those parameters in the field will be sorted last.
Thanks to Copper and Puneet Pugalia and all the others

By: Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:12:50 +0000

All I have to say is THANKS!!!! for the custom order sort…. with the FIELD technique….
awesome!… thanks….

By: JuksWebGuy

JuksWebGuy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:24:02 +0000

Bookmarked

By: Zoltan H

Zoltan H — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:52:42 +0000

This is very cool – you just saved me a lot of time doing my own custom pageinate method (CakePHP framework)

By: Puneet Pugalia

Puneet Pugalia — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:27:52 +0000

Nice.

Example for string based custom ordering(for which I came to this article):
ORDER BY FIELD(day, ‘Monday’, ‘Tuesday’, ‘Wednesday’, ‘Thursday’, ‘Friday’)

By: MTG

MTG — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:11:19 +0000

@nayana adassuriya MAX() If this is red, I would seriously suggest that the owner of this site secure it..

By: nayana adassuriya

nayana adassuriya — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:08:03 +0000

can anybody explain me how to get only maximum or heights value of a field.

thanks

By: Imthiaz

Imthiaz — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:53:47 +0000

The function Field give the weight of the value based on the list

By: Copper

Copper — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:44:29 +0000

try this “select *,Field(status,3,2,4,1) from tbl Order By Field(status,3,2,4,1)” and you will see how it works

By: Copper

Copper — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:37:51 +0000

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_field

you can use order by rand() if you want to randomize the result and so on…