How to Use Order By for Multiple Columns in Laravel 4?

Simply invoke orderBy() as many times as you need it. For instance:

User::orderBy('name', 'DESC')    ->orderBy('email', 'ASC')    ->get();

Produces the following query:

SELECT * FROM `users` ORDER BY `name` DESC, `email` ASC

You can do as @rmobis has specified in his answer, [Adding something more into it]

Using order by twice:

MyTable::orderBy('coloumn1', 'DESC')    ->orderBy('coloumn2', 'ASC')    ->get();

and the second way to do it is,

Using raw order by:

MyTable::orderByRaw("coloumn1 DESC, coloumn2 ASC");    ->get();

Both will produce same query as follow,

SELECT * FROM `my_tables` ORDER BY `coloumn1` DESC, `coloumn2` ASC

As @rmobis specified in comment of first answer you can pass like an array to order by column like this,

$myTable->orders = array(    array('column' => 'coloumn1', 'direction' => 'desc'),     array('column' => 'coloumn2', 'direction' => 'asc'));

one more way to do it is iterate in loop,

$query = DB::table('my_tables');foreach ($request->get('order_by_columns') as $column => $direction) {    $query->orderBy($column, $direction);}$results = $query->get();

Hope it helps :)

Here's another dodge that I came up with for my base repository class where I needed to order by an arbitrary number of columns:

public function findAll(array $where = [], array $with = [], array $orderBy = [], int $limit = 10){    $result = $this->model->with($with);    $dataSet = $result->where($where)        // Conditionally use $orderBy if not empty        ->when(!empty($orderBy), function ($query) use ($orderBy) {            // Break $orderBy into pairs            $pairs = array_chunk($orderBy, 2);            // Iterate over the pairs            foreach ($pairs as $pair) {                // Use the 'splat' to turn the pair into two arguments                $query->orderBy(...$pair);            }        })        ->paginate($limit)        ->appends(Input::except('page'));    return $dataSet;}

Now, you can make your call like this:

$allUsers = $userRepository->findAll([], [], ['name', 'DESC', 'email', 'ASC'], 100);