Question

I have this code so far which is within 2 while loops:

mysql_query("SELECT * FROM listing WHERE 
(category_id='$category' OR category_id_2='$category' OR category_id_3='$category') 
AND listing_status='1' AND listing_type='1' AND listing_id='$listing_id' 
ORDER BY overall DESC");

The data is showing exactly what I want, however the ORDER BY simply isn’t working. I’m not too sure what it’s ordering by. The overall column itself is DECIMAL(12,2).

The values are saved to only 2 decimal places. For instance, in each row it could be 2.56, 2.89. In this case I want the 2.89 to show before the 2.56. However, it’s not.

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I have managed to solve the problem.

By implementing the ‘overall’ column in the first loops table, instead of the second. It orders the data first by overall, and then goes ahead and gathers the other data from the second table.

Many thanks for your help.