Comments on: Order by field

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:37:29 +0000

@Hannibal Lecter: I don’t know how you could accomplish the same with a generic SQL statement…

By: dr. Hannibal Lecter

dr. Hannibal Lecter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:24:20 +0000

This is pretty damn awesome.

Amazingly though, the same day I read this I had to implement a custom order by.. But I’m wondering, is there a way to emulate this with a generic SQL? I wouldn’t want to restrict my software to MySQL, what would be a bit lame..

By: Abhimanyu Grover

Abhimanyu Grover — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:35:49 +0000

@Tarique: You need to know what you’re searching for. hehe ;) I didnt knew by that time..

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:21:41 +0000

@all: Thanks for your comments!

@Abhimanyu: Yes, finding the right search terms is not always that easy.

@Tarique: *g*

@avairet: Yes, it works with both, find(‘all’) and the paginator.

By: avairet

avairet — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:01:14 +0000

Thanks for this post, but I have some questions:
- is it possible to do that with a “find(‘all’)”?
- is it possible to use that in paginator sorting methods?

By: purepear

purepear — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:59 +0000

Really useful information!

By: Tarique Sani

Tarique Sani — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:54:33 +0000

Hey Daniel! thanks for the link juice, I need the traffic :P

@Abhimanyu – after you wrote that I did some searching – see http://www.google.co.in/search?q=custom+order+by+mysql 4th or 5th result.

By: Abhimanyu Grover

Abhimanyu Grover — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:38:43 +0000

Yea, Thats a nice tip… the worst part is you wont find it easily on search engines as well.

By: Martin Bavio

Martin Bavio — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:19:45 +0000

Nice tip! I´m thinking in some parts of code where I will add this feature. Thanks Daniel!