Question

I am doing a ticket pricing table.
It works perfectly apart from one niggle, the prices are coming out in the wrong order, here is what i have so far:

$totalresult = mysql_query("select * from ticket_pricing  WHERE (service_id='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['service_id'])."') and (boarding_point='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['boarding_point'])."') order by ticket_type DESC") or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($totalresult)){ 
    if(strtolower($row['ticket_type']) === "single"){
        if (!$a++){  
                    echo($row['ticket_type']);
            $a++;
        }
    ?>
    <span>
        <?php echo($row['price']);?>
    </span>                 
    <?php
    }
    if(strtolower($row['ticket_type']) === "return"){
        if (!$b++){  
                    echo("<br />" . $row['ticket_type']);
            $b++;
        }
    ?>
    <span>
        <?php echo($row['price']);?>
    </span>                 
    <?php
    }   
    if(strtolower($row['ticket_type']) === "period"){
        if (!$c++){  
                    echo("<br />" . $row['ticket_type']);
            $c++;
        }
    ?>
    <span>
        <?php echo($row['price']);?>
    </span>                 
    <?php
    }           
    if(strtolower($row['ticket_type']) === "group"){
        if (!$d++){  
                    echo("<br />" . $row['ticket_type']);
            $d++;
        }
    ?>
    <span>
        <?php echo($row['price']);?>
    </span>                 
    <?php
    }                                   
}

Answer 1

Why not just sort twice over using the price as the second method of sort?

 $totalresult = mysql_query("select * from ticket_pricing  
     WHERE (service_id='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['service_id'])."') 
     and (boarding_point='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['boarding_point'])."') 
     order by ticket_type DESC, price ASC") or die(mysql_error())