Order by "piece of a name"

Question

Hello,
I was wondering if it would be possible order sql results
from a mysql database by a piece of a name. For instance, all the
product names that contain "red" should come first such as:
Red Flashligh deluxe or Redundant lights or whatever. I have
good seo reasons to do this automatically, but i do not know how.
It would have to look something like this:
SELECT *
FROM products
ORDER BY Productname (WHEN IT CONTAINS "RED") ASC

Answer 1

SyKeSnr1 wrote:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
bregent
> >There might be other ways of doing this, but a very
simple approach
> >would be to use two recordsets:
>
> Using that approach, he could also try using a UNION to
combine the query
> results.
>
>
> Isnt there something like:
>
> Order by LIKE '%red%' First and then NOT LIKE '%red%'
>
> Or something simple and efficient like that? If not, is
there a way to
> manually (by for instance giving the sql code 9 product
id's) get 9 handpicked
> products on the top of the list first and then the rest?
This would also be an
> alternative for me...
Add another column into your database called order, default
it 0, then
once you have 0 set for all your records, change the top 9 to
have a
number higher than 0.
Then you:
ORDER BY order DESC, Products
That way you get all your top products at the top, and the
rest will be
in normal alphanumeric order.
Or, you could set all records to 1, then set the top ones to
0
and
ORDER BY order, Products
Either will work. If you go with the first one the record
with the
highest order will be first.
Steve