Ive searched and read many hundreds of different posts. Some are just dead ends, some are too old to work I think.

So Im asking again:

How can I sort the order of the search results?

All my links have an attribute lets say called 1 2 3 4 5 6.
When searched, they all get alphabeticly and attributes in any order.
I need to make it where my first results are 3 then 5 then 1 and then the rest.
Categories are not an issue since all links in a category have the same attribute.

Something like:

<%if attirbte = 3%>
3 3 3 3 3 3
<%elseif attribute = 5%>
5 5 5 5 5 5
<%elseif attribute =1%>
1 1 1 1 1 1
<%elseif%>
2 4 6 2 mixed or not, doesnt matter.
<%endif%>

Thanks Andy