UNION and ORDER BY issue in MySQL

Question

You should see what I'm trying to do here but it's not working

$getquery = "SELECT * 
FROM highscore 
WHERE score >= '$score'
ORDER BY score ASC
LIMIT 6

UNION

SELECT * 
FROM highscore 
WHERE score < '$score'
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 5";

mysql_error() returns: "improper usage of ORDER BY and UNION".

Answer 1

Try:

$getquery = "(SELECT * 
FROM highscore 
WHERE score >= '$score'
ORDER BY score ASC
LIMIT 6)

UNION ALL -- guaranteed to be beneficial in this case as Johan commented

(SELECT * 
FROM highscore 
WHERE score < '$score'
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 5)";

See the comments to my answer on the related question.
Or consult the fine manual.