Product order

Intro: In this video, I’ll show you how to retrieve items in either ascending or descending order by a particular attribute. If we take a look at the products table we shall find a column named created_at, this holds the timestamp of inserting a particular item into the table, we shall display our products in descending order by this attribute created_at. And it is pretty simple…

1. Open the file ProductsController.php

2. Inside the index() function, replace the function all() by orderBy() , we shall pass the column name created_at as the first argument, and desc as the second argument to specify descending order. Finally call the function get(). $products=Product::orderBy('created_at','desc')->get();

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use App\Models\Product;


class ProductsController extends Controller
{
    //fetch products from the database
    public function index()
    {
      $products=Product::orderBy('created_at','desc')->get();
      return view('products')->with('products',$products);
    }

    //Fetch a product by ID
    public function show($id)
    {
        $product=Product::find($id);
        return view('product')->with("product",$product);
    }

    //Add product information to the database
    public function store(Request $request){

      //validate the incoming data
      $request->validate([
        'title'=>'required',
        'desc-sm'=>'required',
        'desc-full'=>'required',
        'price'=>'required|numeric',
        'img'=>'required'
      ],
      [
        'title.required'=>'Please enter a title',
        'desc-sm.required'=>'Please enter a short description',
        'desc-full.required'=>'Please enter a full description',
        'price.required'=>'Please enter the product price',
        'price.numeric'=>'The price should be a number',
        'img.required'=>'Please upload an image',
      ],
      [
      ]);

      //upload the image
      $path = $request->file('img')->store('product_images');

      //submit data
      $product=new Product();
      $product->title=$request->input('title');
      $product->short_desc=$request->input('desc-sm');
      $product->long_desc=$request->input('desc-full');
      $product->price=$request->input('price');

      $product->image_url=$path;

      $product->user_id=Auth::id();

      $product->save();

      return redirect('/product/'.$product->id);
    }

}

3. Save the changes and reload the products list page. Notice the changes.