How do you change the sorting of Laravel Notifications

Question

I am printing the notifications for a Model in Laravel 5:

@foreach ($booking->notifications as $notification)                     
        <div class="message">
            <div class="myMessage">
              <p>{{ $notification->data[0])}}</p>
            </div>
        </div>                      
@endforeach

These notifications are being printed in descending order, is there a way I can change this so they print in ascending order?

The Laravel documentation states:

By default, notifications will be sorted by the created_at timestamp

It's worth mentioning that there are multiple Notification classes that have been used with this model so I'm not sure if that affects the sorting behavior?

Yeah, it would be easier if we knew what the code in your controller looked like. — Derek Pollard, Jun 25 '17 at 00:34
Why would you want to see the controller? It has nothing to do with the way notifications work in Laravel. If you have specified `use Notifiable;` in your model then Laravel automatically associates the model with any Notification records using the model->id — user3574492, Jun 25 '17 at 00:36
You should be doing all your code processing and data retrieval in the controller, not the view. — Derek Pollard, Jun 25 '17 at 01:35
since you are receiving the notification as a collection, I think the cleanest way is to use collection functions to do any operation on the result. — Peyman, Jun 25 '17 at 03:57
@Derek There is no code processing going on, it's a simply control statement that is looping over a collection and printing the data. it's perfectly fine to keep presentation logic in the view, as long as it is 'presentation logic'. — user3574492, Jun 25 '17 at 15:15
@PeymanSeraj I don't follow, can you elaborate? Maybe with an example? — user3574492, Jun 25 '17 at 15:16

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '17 at 15:35

@Peyman Seraj led me in the right direction here.

With Laravel collections you can use collection methods, so I used the sortBy() method on my collection:

@foreach ($booking->notifications->sortBy('created_at') as $notification)

This now prints the data in ascending order.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '18 at 11:15

Just stump upon the issue: by following the Notifiable trait i found the relation has order assigned to it.

You can override it in your model:

public function notifications()
{
    return $this->morphMany(\Illuminate\Notifications\DatabaseNotification::class, 'notifiable')->orderByRaw('-read_at','DESC')->orderBy('created_at','DESC');
}

in my case i was going for the unread first then the rest. If you wanna set the sort on your query just use plain relation:

public function notifications()
{
    return $this->morphMany(\Illuminate\Notifications\DatabaseNotification::class, 'notifiable');
}

How do you change the sorting of Laravel Notifications

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