MySQL conditional ORDER BY ASC/DESC for date column

Question

I need a MySQL conditional ORDER BY statement for a datetime field. I have a table with posts which I would like to order in the following way: all future posts

Answer 1

Try this:

ORDER BY post_status ASC,
CASE post_status WHEN 'future' THEN POST_DATE END ASC,
CASE WHEN post_status <> 'future' THEN post_date END DESC