Eloquent is sorting my results on its own - laravel

Question

I was grouping the orders data for a graph and used the following eloquent query to achieve that,
Order::selectRaw("CONCAT(monthname(created_at),'-',year(created_at)) as date, count(id) as orders")
->groupBy('date')->get();
I got the expected results on my local machine where dates were in normal order, but when running the same thing on production. I get the following output:
Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection {#4607
all: [
App\Order {#4564
date: "April-2020",
orders: 1,
},
App\Order {#4571
date: "August-2019",
orders: 4,
},
App\Order {#4611
date: "December-2019",
orders: 14,
},
App\Order {#4570
date: "February-2020",
orders: 2,
},
App\Order {#4582
date: "January-2020",
orders: 8,
},
App\Order {#4613
date: "June-2020",
orders: 1,
},
App\Order {#4565
date: "March-2020",
orders: 8,
},
App\Order {#4610
date: "May-2020",
orders: 10,
},
App\Order {#4588
date: "November-2019",
orders: 15,
},
App\Order {#4599
date: "October-2019",
orders: 8,
},
App\Order {#4600
date: "September-2019",
orders: 11,
},
],
}
It seems to be sorted in alphabetical order but I cannot figure out why. Can anyone tell me what could be the issue?
And yes on my local I use SQL ver 8, and on prod we use SQL 5, could that be the cause? How would I fix that?

Answer 1

you can order the results output by simply sticking with the raw expression and adding it in the groupBy() as well...
So change this...
->groupBy('date')
To this...
->groupBy(\DB::raw("CONCAT(monthname(created_at),'-',year(created_at)))")
Order::selectRaw("CONCAT(monthname(created_at),'-',year(created_at)) as date, count(id) as orders")
->groupBy(\DB::raw("CONCAT(monthname(created_at),'-',year(created_at)))")->get();
I hope this helps you.
This is what helped me lol...
https://laraveldaily.com/eloquent-trick-group-by-raw-with-boolean-condition/

Answer 2

to get riddle of automatic and non-automatic sort, just sort it your self:
first: go to config\database.php and make mysql non-strict:
'mysql' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
----------
'strict' => true, // change it to false
then make your query like:
Order::selectRaw("created_at,CONCAT(monthname(created_at),'-',year(created_at)) as date,
count(id) as orders")->orderBy("created_at")
->groupByRaw('date')->get();