Question

so here’s the problem

I have 3 types for a hotel

1. premium
2. featured
3. basic

I am trying to display a list of hotels and sort them so that featured hotels are the first shown

what mysql query would accomplish this?

EDIT
here’s the table, with some fields stripped

ID | hotel_name | type
=======================
1 | Aria Hotel | basic

Answer 1

ORDER BY FIELD(type, 'featured', 'premium', 'basic')

You could rearrange 'featured', 'premium', 'basic' upto your needs, and may also put DESC there too

For example

ORDER BY FIELD(type, 'featured', 'premium', 'basic') DESC

or to arrange the rest as normal sorting order.

ORDER BY FIELD(type, 'featured', 'premium', 'basic') DESC, type;