How To Dual-Sort Query Results In WordPress Using get_posts

Author: erics, September 12th, 2019

Needed to build a feature for a Bookstore tool to have an optional sequence number for the Custom Post Type “books” that would allow items with a seq number to float to the top of the list and be sorted by seq #. The rest of the books would show underneath, sorted alphabetically.

    $querytop = get_posts(array(
        'post_type'     => 'books',
        'numberposts'   => -1, 
        'orderby'       => 'meta_value',
        'meta_key'      => 'book_seq',
        'order'         => 'ASC',
        'meta_query' => array(
            // meta query takes an array of arrays, watch out for this!
            array(
                'key'     => 'book_seq',
                'value'   => array('', 'NULL'),
                'compare' => 'NOT IN'
            )   
        )   

    )); 
    $querybottom = get_posts(array(
        'post_type'     => 'books',
        'numberposts'   => -1, 
        'orderby'       => 'post_title',
        'order'         => 'ASC',
        'meta_query' => array(
            // meta query takes an array of arrays, watch out for this!
            array(
                'key'     => 'book_seq',
                'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'
            )   
        )   
    )); 

    $query = array_merge($querytop, $querybottom);

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$querytop = get_posts(array(

'post_type' => 'books',

'numberposts' => -1,

'orderby' => 'meta_value',

'meta_key' => 'book_seq',

'order' => 'ASC',

'meta_query' => array(

// meta query takes an array of arrays, watch out for this!

array(

'key' => 'book_seq',

'value' => array('', 'NULL'),

'compare' => 'NOT IN'

)

));

$querybottom = get_posts(array(

'post_type' => 'books',

'numberposts' => -1,

'orderby' => 'post_title',

'order' => 'ASC',

'meta_query' => array(

// meta query takes an array of arrays, watch out for this!

array(

'key' => 'book_seq',

'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'

)

));

$query = array_merge($querytop, $querybottom);

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: bottom, Compare, cpt, Exists, Filter, Float, get_posts, howto, key, meta_key, meta_value, NOT EXISTS, NOT IN, Order, OrderBy, post_type, Query, Seq, Sequence, sort, tips, top, Value, WordPress | No comments

How To Select Rows in MySQL with No Matching Entry in Another Table

Author: erics, May 16th, 2018

SELECT t1.id FROM tableOne t1 LEFT JOIN tableTwo t2 ON t1.id = t2.id WHERE t2.id IS NULL The “WHERE t2.id IS NULL clause” restricts the results to only those rows where the id returned from tableTwo is null. tableTwo.id will be NULL for all records from tableOne where the id is not found in tableTwo.

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: howto, Join, Left Join, mysql, Query, Row, Rows, select, SQL, Table, tips, Where | No comments

How To Get the URL in Javascript Without the Query String

Author: erics, August 29th, 2013

window.location.href.split(‘?’)[0]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: howto, javascript, Query, Query String, tips, URL | No comments

How To Create a List of Reports, Queries or Tables in Microsoft Access

Author: erics, February 25th, 2012

This query will list the names of the reports in the database: SELECT MSysObjects.Name AS Report_Name FROM MSysObjects WHERE (((MSysObjects.Type)=-32764)) ORDER BY MSysObjects.Name; This query will list the names of the queries in the database: SELECT MSysObjects.Name FROM MSysObjects WHERE (((MSysObjects.Type)=5)); This query will list the names of the tables in the database: SELECT MSysObjects.Name […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Access, Export, howto, MS Access, Queries, Query, Reports, tips | No comments

How To Return Line Numbers In MySQL

Author: erics, October 14th, 2011

SELECT @rownum := @rownum + 1 AS Rank, T1.* FROM (select @rownum := 0) R, ( 
   SELECT Category, Item, Value FROM Inventory 
   WHERE lastUpdated = CURDATE() 
   ORDER BY Value DESC
) AS T1
WHERE T1.Item = "Camera"

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SELECT @rownum := @rownum + 1 AS Rank, T1.* FROM (select @rownum := 0) R, (

SELECT Category, Item, Value FROM Inventory

WHERE lastUpdated = CURDATE()

ORDER BY Value DESC

) AS T1

WHERE T1.Item = "Camera"

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: howto, Line number, mysql, Query, Row number, Sequence number, sort, SQL, tips | No comments

How To Dual-Sort Query Results In WordPress Using get_posts

How To Select Rows in MySQL with No Matching Entry in Another Table

How To Get the URL in Javascript Without the Query String

How To Create a List of Reports, Queries or Tables in Microsoft Access

How To Return Line Numbers In MySQL

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