on your order model try doing this

class Order extends Eloquent{

    public function customer()
    {
        return $this->hasOne(Customer::class)->orderBy('customer_name', 'asc');
    }

}

Thank you for your answer!

No, this didn't work. Its being printed out as before

Hi @znittzel, Try ordering in the with closure.

    $order = Order::with(['customer'=>function($q){
        $q->orderBy('customer_name');
    }]);

Thank you for your answer! Though that didn't work either. I still get them ordered by $order->id. I'm doing

 $order = Order::with(['customer'=>function($q){
        $q->orderBy('customer_name');
    }])->get();

but that'll make no difference, right?

what you want is for the whole collection to be ordered by the customer_name, right? i did something similar but it didn't feel too right. i post it as a question to see if anybody can come up with a better solution. u can look up the code at the question here: http://laravel.io/forum/01-14-2016-is-there-a-way-to-sort-whole-collection-based-on-related-model