How to add multiple levels of sorting in yii2 controller as default sort

Question

i want to sort 3 levels or ads.The first level is premium (status=2) then featured(status=1) and regular(status=0).In the list view i need to show the premium ads first with sort data desc.Means latest post in the premium ads first.Then i want to show the featured ads also like latest post first,Then the regular ads also like latest post first. And i have a default sort like

$dataProvider = $searchModel->search($params);
$defaultSort = $dataProvider->getSort();
$defaultSort->defaultOrder = ['date'=>SORT_DESC];

This code will sort the entire listing with the date sort_desc order.Not filtering premium, featured and regular wise.so i changed this to

$defaultSort->defaultOrder = ['status' => SORT_DESC,'date'=>SORT_DESC];

But nothing happened.How can i do this 3 level sorting in yii2

Answer 1

Should be

$dataProvider = $searchModel->search($params);
$dataProvider->sort->defaultOrder =  ['status' => SORT_DESC,'date'=>SORT_DESC];