[5.4] Add orderByDesc() to Query Builder

[KennedyTedesco]

Just a shortcut of something that I use a lot.

[GrahamCampbell]

👍

[joshmanders]

So I'm on the fence about this... If we introduce orderByDesc($name) then shouldn't we have orderByAsc($name) too? Other wise inconsistencies...

Then I think, maybe a magic method, that does like orderByName('desc') and Name is column name, sorta like magic method for whereName('whatever').

Thoughts?

[KennedyTedesco]

I don't think so. asc it's already implicit (see orderBy) and, after all, this is the default of MySQL (which is used by the majority of the devs):

The default sort order is ascending, with smallest values first. To sort in reverse (descending) order, add the DESC keyword. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/sorting-rows.html

[stefensuhat]

actually Laravel already provide latest and oldest. you can pass the argument column name. ex: latest('posted_at')

[aliusa]

orderByDesc() is more rememberable than latest()...

[CupOfTea696]

Why not just use

    public function orderByDesc($column)
    {
        return $this->orderBy($column, 'desc');
    }

[KennedyTedesco]

Here you go @CupOfTea696 #18465

Thanks. 😄

[anuppatil95]

this would be perfect

[CupOfTea696]

Awesome!