Ordering items by alphabetical order

[recci]

How do I order the following results set alphabetically?

$towns = Area::descendantsOf($rootId)->toTree($rootId);

[garbinmarcelo]

Hello, did you manage to order the items? I need it too...

[seanfoushee]

In case anyone comes here looking for the solution, just use orderBy when getting the records from the DB:

$categories = Category::orderBy('name')->get()->toTree();