keithschm Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 ok I am quering a table that has a number of fields. one of the fields is "rank". each entry has a number in the rank field 1 through 24. I am sorting by that field. "ORDER BY rank"but instead of ordering like 1,2,3,4, etc it orders it by 1,10,11,12,13.....2,20,21,22,.....3,4,5,6,7,8,9if I sort the table trough phpmyadmin it sorts the same way as well, What am I doing wrong. Do I have to change the type of that field. it is currently a text field.thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 [!--quoteo(post=351394:date=Mar 3 2006, 02:14 PM:name=keithschm)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(keithschm @ Mar 3 2006, 02:14 PM) [snapback]351394[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]Do I have to change the type of that field. it is currently a text field.thanks[/quote]welcome to the forums! i hope you get lots of help here!to get it to sort numerically, you have to have a numeric field, so, yes, you'd do better to have it as an INT field in the database. it is sorting alphabetically since it's a string, and alphabetically, the numbers are taken character by character and matched, not as a whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithschm Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 wow thanks, that was easy. Thanks for the helpI just donated $20 to the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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