Question

So i’m filling in for our developer at the moment (be for-warned i’m a beginner) but I”m trying to simply sort my search results by profiles that have a profile picture included (i.e, i don’t want blank profile pictures to show up at the top of the results…they should all be at the end of the results)…Note that there are a couple user types which is why there is so much code…

I’m pretty sure where i’m going wrong is the 2 lines…

ORDER BY $order u.picture ISNULL DESC”; (which relates to ordering by profile pictures). Would really appreciate any and all help…thx!

The code is as follows:

if ($user_type == 1) {
        $sql = "SELECT a.*, u.*,
                (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT userId) FROM LF_usertype_A WHERE usertype_BId = u.userId AND status = 1) as i_cnt,
                (SELECT COUNT(productId) FROM LF_products WHERE userId = u.userId AND status = 1) as product_cnt,
                (SELECT COUNT(transactionId)
                    FROM LF_Transactions
                    WHERE usertypeBId = u.userId
                        AND (status = 1 OR status = 2)
                        AND type = 9
                        AND userId != usertypeBId
                        AND userId != usertypeAId) AS cnt
                FROM LF_Users u
                JOIN LF_products a ON a.userId = u.userId
                LEFT JOIN LF_Transactions t ON t.productId = a.productId
                WHERE a.status = 1
                    AND u.status = 1
                    AND u.userType = :ut $where
                GROUP BY u.userID
                ORDER BY $order u.name DESC LIMIT 200";
    } elseif ($filter != "recent" && $user_type == 2) {
        $sql = "SELECT u.*,
                (SELECT COUNT(a.productId) FROM LF_usertypeA a INNER JOIN LF_products ON a.productId = m.productId INNER JOIN LF_Users uu ON uu.userId = a.usertypeAId WHERE a.userId = u.userId AND uu.status = 1 AND a.status = 1 AND m.status = 1) as product_cnt,
                (SELECT COUNT(transactionId)
                    FROM LF_Transactions
                    WHERE usertypeBId = u.userId
                        AND (status = 1 OR status = 2)
                        AND type = 9
                        AND userId != usertypeAId
                        AND userId != usertypeBId) AS cnt
                FROM LF_Users u
                LEFT JOIN LF_Transactions t ON t.usertypeBId = u.userId
                WHERE u.status = 1
                    AND u.userId != 1
                    AND u.userType = :ut $where
                GROUP BY u.userID
                ORDER BY $order u.name DESC LIMIT 200
                ORDER BY $order u.picture ISNULL DESC";
    } else {
        $sql = "SELECT u.*,
                (SELECT COUNT(a.productId) FROM LF_usertype_A a INNER JOIN LF_products m ON a.productId = m.productId INNER JOIN LF_Users uu ON uu.userId = a.usertypeAId WHERE a.userId = u.userId AND uu.status = 1 AND a.status = 1 AND m.status = 1) as product_cnt,
                (SELECT COUNT(transactionId)
                    FROM LF_Transactions
                    WHERE usertypeBId = u.userId
                        AND (status = 1 OR status = 2)
                        AND type = 9
                        AND userId != usertypeAId
                        AND userId != usertypeBId) AS cnt
                FROM LF_Users u
                WHERE u.status = 1
                AND u.userId != 1
                AND u.userType = :ut $where
                GROUP BY u.userID
                ORDER BY $order u.name DESC LIMIT 200
        ORDER BY $order u.picture ISNULL DESC";
    }

Answer 1

You would have to put the isnull condition before your regular sort order if you want it to take precedence:

ORDER BY ISNULL(u.picture), $order