Laravel OrderBy by related table column - php

Question

I have a table (A) that has a One to Many relation with another table (B).
I want to query Table A and eager load Table B with the Table A results - but I also want to sort Table A by a value in Table B.
I have tried using OrderBy in the query and also trying SortBy on the resultant collection but cannot get the Table A data to be sorted by the value found in Table B.
Example of what I have tried:
$query = ModelA::with("ModelB"])->get()->sortByDesc('ModelB.sortValue');
Keep in mind, I am only interested in the LATEST record from Table B. So I need to query Table A and sort by a value in the LATEST records of Table B.
How can I achieve this?
EDIT:
The below (as suggested by #ljubadr) works pretty close, but the issue is that there are many record in Table B which means that it doesn't reliably sort as it doesn't seem to sortby the latest records in Table B. Can I have the join return ONLY the latest record for each ID?
$query = ModelA::select('TableA.*')
->join('TableB', 'TableA.id', '=', 'TableB.col_id')
->groupBy('TableA.id')->orderBy('TableB.sortCol', 'desc')
->with(['x'])
->get();
EDIT 2:
#Neku80 answer has gotten me closest but it seems to not sort the column with the greatest accuracy.. I'm sorting a Decimal column and for the most part it is in order but in some places the items are out of order..
$latestTableB = ModelB::select(['TableA_id', 'sortByColumnName'], DB::raw('MAX(created_at) as created_at'))
->groupBy('TableA_id');
$query = ModelA::select('TableA.*')
->joinSub($latestTableB, 'latest_TableB', function ($join) {
$join->on('TableA.id', '=', 'latest_TableB.TableA_id');
})
->orderBy('latest_TableB.sortByColumnName')
->get();
For example, the ordering is like:
0.0437
0.0389
0.0247 <-- -1
0.025 <-- +1
0.0127
When I delete all rows except for the 'latest' rows, then it orders correctly, so it still must be ordering with old data...
I have found a solution:
ModelA::select('TableA.*', 'TableB.sortByCol as sortByCol')
->leftJoin('TableB', function ($query) {
$query->on('TableB.TableA_id', '=', 'TableA.id')
->whereRaw('TableB.id IN (select MAX(a2.id) from TableB as a2 join TableA as u2 on u2.id = a2.TableA_id group by u2.id)');
})
->orderBy('TableB.sortByCol')
->get();

Answer 1

Another alternative to order is like this:
$users = User::orderBy(
Company::select('name')
->whereColumn('companies.user_id', 'users.id'),
'asc'
)->get();
Here we are ordering in asc order by company name field.
In this article it is explained in detail.

Answer 2

You can simply execute a left join query:
ModelA::query()->leftJoin('model_b_table', 'model_a_table.primary_key', '=', 'model_b_table.foreign_key')->orderBy('model_a_table.target_column')->get();

Answer 3

This should work if you only need TableB's ID and created_at columns:
$latestTableB = ModelB::select('TableA_id', DB::raw('MAX(created_at) as created_at'))
->groupBy('TableA_id');
$query = ModelA::select('TableA.*')
->joinSub($latestTableB, 'latest_TableB', function ($join) {
$join->on('TableA.id', '=', 'latest_TableB.TableA_id');
})
->orderBy('latest_TableB.created_at')
->get();