PHP MySQL Use The ORDER BY Clause

SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name(s) ASC|DESC 

Using MySQLi:

<?php
// MySQLi Configuration
$servername = "localhost"; // Change this to your MySQL server address
$username = "username"; // Change this to your MySQL username
$password = "password"; // Change this to your MySQL password
$database = "dbname"; // Change this to your MySQL database name

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// SQL statement with ORDER BY clause
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY name ASC"; // Orders by name in ascending order

// Execute the query
$result = $conn->query($sql);

// Check if there are any rows returned
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // Output data of each row
    while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "ID: " . $row["id"] . " - Name: " . $row["name"] . " - Email: " . $row["email"] . "
";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

// Close connection
$conn->close();
?>

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Using PDO :

<?php

// PDO Configuration
$servername = "localhost"; // Change this to your MySQL server address
$username = "username"; // Change this to your MySQL username
$password = "password"; // Change this to your MySQL password
$database = "dbname"; // Change this to your MySQL database name

try {
    // Connect to MySQL using PDO
    $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$database", $username, $password);
    
    // Set PDO error mode to exception
    $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    
    // SQL statement with ORDER BY clause
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY name ASC"; // Orders by name in ascending order
    
    // Prepare the statement
    $stmt = $conn->prepare($sql);
    
    // Execute the statement
    $stmt->execute();
    
    // Fetch all rows as associative array
    $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    
    // Output data of each row
    foreach ($rows as $row) {
        echo "ID: " . $row["id"] . " - Name: " . $row["name"] . " - Email: " . $row["email"] . "
";
    }
} catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
}

// Close connection
$conn = null;
?>

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