PHP: do an ORDER BY using external data?

Question

Ahoy all! Long story short with this one if you don\'t mind lending a hand to this novice PHPer. :)

I have a database field called \"Categories\" that has this stored:

Answer 1

... ORDER BY FIELD(type,"Fruit","People","Place","Animals","Landscape")

http://www.cfdan.com/posts/Handy_MySQL_-_ORDER_BY_FIELD.cfm