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The wonders of order_by - PaulD - 08-30-2015
I just discovered this and it is wonderful. I hope it is not dangerous/wrong or ill advised. Thought I would mention it and perhaps suggest the documentation should mention it, as it is very handy to know.
I had an online shop where I wanted to order the sale items by the amount saved, i.e. product price minus sale price. I was struggling for a while on how to do this when I had an idea to try this - and it worked perfectly.
Code:
$this->db->order_by('product_price - product_sale_price', 'DESC');The wonders of codeigniter, one line did it all.
I was about to change the admin adding of sale price to add in a column on the product table for saving amount, which would have been a pain.
I am personally very happy with this! Thank you CI for being so perfect!
Best wishes,
Paul.
RE: The wonders of order_by - CroNiX - 08-30-2015
That's really more having to do with SQL than CI though.
ORDER BY field1 - field2
is perfectly valid SQL
RE: The wonders of order_by - PaulD - 08-31-2015
True of course, just didn't realise I could put whatever was valid SQL into order_by, very glad I could though and relieved when it worked so well. I just think I wanted to mention it. Looking forward to trying out some date comparisons and sorting in it too.
Best wishes,
Paul.
RE: The wonders of order_by - Narf - 09-01-2015
Be careful with dynamic ORDER BY conditions ... you may put a lot of overhead on the database that way.
RE: The wonders of order_by - PaulD - 09-01-2015
(09-01-2015, 02:50 AM)Narf Wrote: Be careful with dynamic ORDER BY conditions ... you may put a lot of overhead on the database that way.
Thanks for the warning. Much appreciated and duly noted.
Best wishes,
Paul.