How to get all last order status in magento?

Question

How to get the last order status in Magento?

e.g an order might have multi status but I would like to get the last status order's status. 1.Pending=>2.processing=>3.complete

$myOrder=Mage::getModel('sales/order'); 
$orders=Mage::getModel('sales/mysql4_order_collection');
$orders->addFieldToFilter('status',array('in'=> array('processing', 'processed', 'pending fullfilment'))); 



$orders->addFieldToFilter('store_id',array("in" => array('8', '9'))); 

$orders->addAttributeToSort('created_at', 'asc');

$allIds=$orders->getAllIds();

print_r($allIds).'</br></br>';

foreach($allIds as $thisId) {
...
}

Answer 1

The two most obvious fields to order your collection by would be entity_id or created_at. In almost all cases though, you should see identical results from each…

By entity_id

$status = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->getCollection()
    ->setOrder('entity_id', Varien_Data_Collection::SORT_ORDER_DESC)
    ->getFirstItem()
    ->getData('status')
;

By created_at

$status = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->getCollection()
    ->setOrder('created_at', Varien_Data_Collection::SORT_ORDER_DESC)
    ->getFirstItem()
    ->getData('status')
;

Answer 2

Should be pretty simple actually:

$status = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->getCollection()
    ->setOrder('entity_id', Varien_Data_Collection::SORT_ORDER_DESC)
    ->getFirstItem()
    ->getStatus();

Note that status and state are two slightly different fields, you may want to double check and be sure that you're pulling the right one for your needs.