In what way does the sorting of data by alphabet instead of ID in the PHP code impact the display of entries in the table?

Sorting data by alphabet instead of ID in the PHP code can impact the display of entries in the table by rearranging them based on their alphabetical order rather than their original order or importance. To solve this issue and display entries based on their IDs, you can modify the SQL query to include an ORDER BY clause that sorts the data by ID. 

<?php
// Connect to database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// SQL query to select data from the table and order by ID
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY id";

$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // Output data of each row
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "ID: " . $row["id"]. " - Name: " . $row["name"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

$conn->close();
?>

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