Question

hi i have a sold table in my db , my table looks like this :

+-----------+---------------------+---------+---------+ 
| id        | product_id          | user_id | date    |
+-----------+---------------------+---------+---------+
|         1 | 20                  |      2  |392185767| 
+-----------+---------------------+---------+---------+
|         2 | 28                  |      3  |392333337| 
+-----------+---------------------+---------+---------+

i want to want to sort table output by most purchased products
something like :

$sql = "select * from sold order by most_repeated(product_id)";

i don’t want to group the out put by product id , i just want to sort them so the most repeated products shows at the top of result

Answer 1

Since you do not want to group by, you could use a correlated query:

select * from sold s
order by (select COUNT(1) from sold ss where ss.product_id=s.product_id)

I have not tried this in MySQL, but it should work.