MySQLi Order By

MySQLi ORDER BY statement is used to sort the result-set in ascending or descending order.

Below the syntax of ORDER BY command.

SELECT expressions FROM table_name [WHERE Clause] ORDER BY [ASC | DESC];

<?php
$conn  = mysqli_connect('localhost:3306', 'user_name', 'password', 'db_nexladder');
 if(! $conn) {
     die('Could not connect: ' . mysqli_error());
 }
$sql = "SELECT `first_name` FROM `tbl_customers` ORDER BY `first_name` ASC";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) 
  {
    while($row = mysqli_fetch_object($result)) {
      echo "Name: " . $row->first_name. "<br />";
     }
  } else {
      echo "0 rows";
}
 mysqli_close($conn);
?>

Below it'll look like: