MySQL Joins and ORDER BY in PHP / MYSQL - php

Question

I have a database that looks like this with two tables
Items
id | Title
-----------------------------
1 Bus
2 Plane
3 Jet
4 Shoes
5 Chair
Sorting
id | CatID | ItemID | SortOrder
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 3 3 3
2 3 2 1
3 3 4 2
4 3 1 0
5 4 5 4
I can't figure out how to list the Titles of the ITEMS table based on the "SortOrder" Column of the SORTING table.
Here is what I tried so far:
SELECT *
FROM Items
LEFT JOIN Sorting ON Items.id = Sorting.ItemID
WHERE Sorting.CatID = 3
ORDER BY Sorting.SortOrder
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
EDIT
It looks like the MySQL query is correct, the problem is happening because when I output the $row['id'] of the Items Table it is incorrect. I have an Ajax PHP update that is updating the database based on the id of an li tag.
Any ideas why the $row['id'] is outputting incorrectly? I think it has something to do with the Items.id = Sorting.ItemID

Answer 1

This works as expected - SQLFiddle DEMO:
SELECT i.*, s.SortOrder
FROM items i, sorting s
WHERE i.id = s.ItemID
AND s.CatID = 3
ORDER BY s.SortOrder

Answer 2

Try
SELECT *
FROM Items
LEFT JOIN Sorting ON Items.id = Sorting.ItemID
WHERE Sorting.CatID = 3
ORDER BY Sorting.SortOrder ASC
add DESC or ASC in ORDER BY clause.
if you use ASC then sorted result will be 0 1 2 3 4 for SortOrder.
sample php code to get title
<?php
$query = mysqli_query(above_query)or die(mysqli_error());
while($result = mysqli_fetch_assoc($query))
{
echo $result['title']. '<br/>';
}