Question

I been looking but I cant find any way to do this. I’m trying to order sql result by username but with specific name first, i dont knwo if this is possible, here is the code:

SELECT A.user_id, A.username, B.user_colour FROM likes AS A, users AS B
            WHERE sta_id=$sta_id AND A.user_id = B.user_id 
          ORDER BY username ASC;

the specific name that i want to show first let call it “testing”.

Answer 1

You can place a case statement into the ORDER BY which effectively assigns a lower value to the specific name than everything else. That is then followed by a regular username order for the rest to be alphabetical ASC

SELECT A.user_id, A.username, B.user_colour FROM likes AS A, users AS B
WHERE sta_id=$sta_id AND A.user_id = B.user_id 
ORDER BY
 CASE WHEN A.username = 'some specific name' THEN 0 ELSE 1 END,
 username ASC;