Data ordering question

Question

hello all, basicaly, im trying 2 order a query with the 'order by' statement in sql (Access) and then output it into a table. what im doing is: the table is queried, and outputted to an html table. then the column headers contain a hyperlink that sets the querystring to a value for ordering. im not sure what the problem is, but i guess i dont know how to structure everything so that the querystring is evaluated and orders the sql code. like if you could tell me how to setup the table, links, and query that would be nice. Thanks!

Answer 1

<!--- of is the order field --->
<cfif #of# eq "">
<!---there is no orderfield--->
<cfquery name="qCustomers" datasource="customers">
select id,[first name] as firstname, company, [last name] as lastname,[job title] as jobtitle, [Business Phone] as businessphone, [Fax Number] as faxnumber, Address, City, [state/province] as stateprovince,[Zip/Postal Code] as zippostal, [country/region]as countryregion, [web page] as webpage 
from Customers 
</cfquery>
<cfelse>
<!---there is an orderfield--->
 <cfif #of# eq "lastname">
 <cfset of="[last name]">
 </cfif>
 <cfif #of# eq "firstname">
 <cfset of="[first name]">  
</cfif> 
<cfif #of# eq "jobtitle">
 <cfset of="[job title]">  
</cfif>  
<cfquery name="qCustomers" datasource="customers">
 select id,[first name] as firstname, company, [last name] as lastname,[job title] as jobtitle, [Business Phone] as businessphone, [Fax Number] as faxnumber, Address, City, [state/province] as stateprovince,[Zip/Postal Code] as zippostal, [country/region] as countryregion, [web page] as webpage  
from Customers  
order by #of# 
</cfquery>
 </cfif>