Returning query results in predefined order

Question

Is it possible to do a SELECT statement with a predetermined order, ie. selecting IDs 7,2,5,9 and 8 and returning them in that order, based on

Answer 1

All ordering is done by the ORDER BY keywords, you can only however sort ascending and descending. If you are using a language such as PHP you can then sort them accordingly using some code but I do not believe it is possible with MySQL alone.