I am trying to make an ORDER BY FIELD work with a wildcard, and have been unsuccessful:
SELECT positions.*,
departments.dept_name,
departments.dept_url,
divisions.dept_name AS div_name
FROM positions LEFT JOIN departments
ON positions.colleague_dept_code = departments.colleague_code
LEFT JOIN departments AS divisions
ON positions.colleague_div_code = divisions.colleague_code
WHERE colleague_id = '$colleague_id'
ORDER BY FIELD(positions.colleague_position_id, 'A%', 'F%', 'T%', 'S%', 'C%')
The colleague_position_id field has a text ID generated by our MIS system, and I'd like for positions starting with A to display first, F to display second, etc., etc.
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
解决方案
This should give you the most control over it:
order by
case left(positions.colleague_position_id, 1)
when 'A' then 1
when 'F' then 2
when 'T' then 3
when 'S' then 4
when 'C' then 5
else 6
end, positions.colleague_position_id
This is because you can send all non-matching values to the position you want (in this case at the end). The field() function will return 0 for non matching values and will put them at the top of the result set even before the ones starting with A.
Additionally, you can also order by positions.colleague_position_id as I did in the example, so that for many positions.colleague_position_id that start with the same letter they will still be in order.