Cannot figure out where to put ORDER BY - php

Question

I know where not to put it, at least.
I inherited this project from my predecessor. I know very little about PHP and SQL Server, but here we are. The first while loop contains the problem. I need to ORDER BY UserType, but obviously it is just ordering one entry every time because of where it is in the while loop. The result is meant to be that the results are shown with one user type first in alphabetical order, then the second user type in alphabetical order.
Google, and searching here, have only been moderately enlightening because most examples don't seem quite this complicated. It may be something simple, but I don't see it. Any help would be appreciated.
$sql = "SELECT UserID FROM vw_AgentService WHERE StateID = ".$state.
"AND OrgID = ".$org.
"AND ServiceID = ".$service; //JOIN
$stmt = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);
if ($stmt === false) {
die(print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
while ($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$sqlb = "SELECT * FROM vw_UserInfo WHERE UserId = ".$row["UserID"].
" AND (UserType = 1 OR UserType = 2) ORDER BY UserType DESC, UserLastName"; //Herein lies the problem
$stmtb = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sqlb);
if ($stmtb === false) {
die(print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
while ($rowb = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmtb, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$sqlc = "SELECT * FROM vw_UserPhotoPath WHERE UserID = ".$row["UserID"];
$stmtc = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sqlc);
if ($stmtc === false) {
die(print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
while ($rowc = sqlsrv_fetch_array($stmtc, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC)) {
if ($rowc['PhotoFilePath'] === null) {
echo "<a href=\"profile.php?id=".$rowb["UserID"].
"\">".
"<li><img src=\"profile/blank-avatar.png\" width=\"100\" />";
} else {
echo "<a href=\"profile.php?id=".$rowb["UserID"].
"\">".
"<li><img src=\"http://demo-bc.cmfirsttech.com:8081/".$rowc['PhotoFilePath'].
"\" width=\"100\" />";
}
}
echo $rowb["UserFirstName"].
" ".$rowb["UserLastName"].
"<br/><span class=\"info\">".$rowb["UserTitle"].
", ".$rowb["UserCompany"]; // Should the ORDER BY actually go here?
//.</span></a></li>"; //rm </br>, add ", "
}
}
I've been told that the ORDER BY usually goes at the end, but I am not sure I understand the logic because at that point it is just echoing the data I already have.

Answer 1

The ORDER BY clause should be added to the end of the SQL statement.
Something like this;
$sqlc = "SELECT * FROM vw_UserPhotoPath WHERE UserID = ".$row["UserID"] . " ORDER BY UserType";
That's assuming UserType is in your source view (vw_UserPhotoPath).
EDIT 1 - Should have read the question properly
You actually need your ORDER BY on the very first SQL call, ie;
$sql = "SELECT UserID FROM vw_AgentService WHERE StateID = ".$state." AND OrgID = ".$org. "AND ServiceID = ".$service . " ORDER BY UserType";
This is because the second query only returns one record. This first query is what's getting the list so where the order by should be placed.