Using Order By in Custom Shortcodes

hello my goal is to fetch distinct data ordered by ascending value and also check a field’s value. I am doing it this way which is obviously not a desired approach as I can see it involves faulty looping. Please guide me—`

$names = array();

while ($row = $exp->nextRow()) {
$status=$row[‘status’];
$names[] = $row[‘land-number’];

$distinctNames = array_unique($names); //for distinct values
$sortedNames=array_reverse($distinctNames); //for sorting

}
foreach ($sortedNames as $name) {

if ($status=’vacant’) //here is the problem,its outside while loop
{
$url=”404.php”;

}
else if ($status=’reserved’){
$url= ‘https://lamiajoyee.com/wp/?page_id=74&pgnr=’.$name;
}
echo ‘<a href=’.$url.’ class=”boxer”>’;
echo ‘<div id=”Div’.$name.'” class=”over”></div>’;
echo ‘</a>’;
}`

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