i am trying to get all topics based on a forum ID. Those topics need to be ordered by sticky first and then by last post date secondly.
I have this query, working almost fine but it doesn't order the topics in the way i want.
SELECT
forum_posts.posted_by,
forum_posts.posted,
forum_topics.id,
forum_topics.subject,
forum_topics.sticky,
forum_topics.closed
FROM
forum_posts
LEFT JOIN
forum_topics
ON
forum_topics.id=forum_posts.topic_id
WHERE forum_topics.forum_id=$forumdata->id
GROUP BY forum_topics.id
ORDER BY forum_posts.posted DESC
If I read your question correctly, then you only need to make a slight change to the ORDER BY
clause:
ORDER BY
forum_topics.sticky, -- just add this
forum_posts.posted DESC;
However, as you are selecting non aggregate columns, my hunch is that you should really be using a subquery to figure out the latest post:
SELECT
ft.*, fp1.*
FROM forum_posts fp1
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT topic_id, MAX(posted) AS max_posted
FROM forum_posts
GROUP BY topic_id
) fp2
ON fp1.topic_id = fp2.topic_id AND
fp1.posted = fp2.max_posted
LEFT JOIN forum_topics ft
ON fp1.id = ft.topic_id
ORDER BY
ft.sticky;
if you need sticky first an then post then you need order by orum_topics.sticky, forum_posts.posted eg:
SELECT
forum_posts.posted_by,
forum_posts.posted,
forum_topics.id,
forum_topics.subject,
forum_topics.sticky,
forum_topics.closed
FROM
forum_posts
LEFT JOIN
forum_topics
ON
forum_topics.id=forum_posts.topic_id
WHERE forum_topics.forum_id=$forumdata->id
GROUP BY forum_topics.id
ORDER BY forum_topics.sticky DESC, forum_posts.posted DESC