Magento 1.9 sort collection by one of the fields value

Question

Whetever I do it still gives me the same results. Querying cms_block ids:

    $collection = Mage::getModel( 'cms/block' )
        ->getCollection()
    // can't add addAttributeToSelect(whatever name here or esterisk because it is casing ..error)
        ->addFieldToFilter( 'is_active', 1 )
        ->addFieldToFilter( 'is_slide', 1 )
    ;
    $collection->getSelect()
        ->order('position ASC');

Tried various sort methods but ... no luck. Any ideas how to get cms/block ids sorted by position ?

Answer 1

Magento 1.9.x CMS Static Blocks are saved in cms_block table which doesn't have any field called "position". So you cannot sort by "position". Secondly the arguments for setOrder method is

setOrder('field_name','sortdirection')

Hope this helps. Just presented a working code which filters the CMS Blocks by active status and order by name (title) in descending order.

$cmsBlockCollection = Mage::getModel('cms/block')->getCollection();
$cmsBlockCollection->addFieldToFilter('is_active',1);
$cmsBlockCollection->setOrder('title','DESC');

or you can also order the collection by this way

$cmsBlockCollection->getSelect()->order('title','DESC');