Laravel Eloquent: Ordering results of all()

Question

I'm stuck on a simple task. I just need to order results coming from this call

$results = Project::all();

Where Project is a model. I've tried this

$results = Project::all()->orderBy("name");

But it didn't work. Which is the better way to obtain all data from a table and get them ordered?

Answer 1

You can actually do this within the query.

$results = Project::orderBy('name')->get();

This will return all results with the proper order.

Answer 2

You could still use sortBy (at the collection level) instead of orderBy (at the query level) if you still want to use all() since it returns a collection of objects.

Ascending Order

$results = Project::all()->sortBy("name");

Descending Order

$results = Project::all()->sortByDesc("name");

Check out the documentation about Collections for more details.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/collections

Answer 3

In addition, just to buttress the former answers, it could be sorted as well either in descending desc or ascending asc orders by adding either as the second parameter.

$results = Project::orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->get();

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

2017 update

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Laravel 5.4 added orderByDesc() methods to query builder:

$results = Project::orderByDesc('name')->get();

Answer 5

While you need result for date as desc

$results = Project::latest('created_at')->get();

Answer 6

DO THIS:

$results = Project::orderBy('name')->get();

DON'T DO THIS:

$results = Project::all()->sortBy('name');

WHY? Briefly, the first approach is faster than the second approach.

Answer 7

Check out the sortBy method for Eloquent: http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent

Answer 8

Note, you can do:

$results = Project::select('name')->orderBy('name')->get();

This generate a query like:

"SELECT name FROM proyect ORDER BY 'name' ASC"

In some apps when the DB is not optimized and the query is more complex, and you need prevent generate a ORDER BY in the finish SQL, you can do:

$result = Project::select('name')->get();
$result = $result->sortBy('name');
$result = $result->values()->all();

Now is php who order the result.