array
If you are dealing with a multidimensional array you want to sort, then this might be helpfull:
<?php
function array_sort($arr){
if(empty($arr)) return $arr;
foreach($arr as $k => $a){
if(!is_array($a)){
arsort($arr); // could be any kind of sort
return $arr;
}else{
$arr[$k] = array_sort($a);
}
}
return $arr;
}
?>
arsort
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
arsort — Сортирует массив в обратном порядке, сохраняя ключи
Описание
bool arsort
( array
&$array
[, int $sort_flags = SORT_REGULAR
] )Эта функция сортирует массив в обратном порядке таким образом, что сохраняются отношения между ключами и значениями.
Она полезна, в основном, при сортировке ассоциативных массивов, когда важно сохранить отношение ключ => значение.
Список параметров
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array -
Входной массив.
-
sort_flags -
Вы можете изменить поведение сортировки, используя дополнительный параметр
sort_flags, подробнее см. sort().
Возвращаемые значения
Возвращает TRUE в случае успешного завершения или FALSE в случае возникновения ошибки.
Примеры
Пример #1 Пример использования arsort()
<?php
$fruits = array("d" => "lemon", "a" => "orange", "b" => "banana", "c" => "apple");
arsort($fruits);
foreach ($fruits as $key => $val) {
echo "$key = $val\n";
}
?>
Результат выполнения данного примера:
a = orange d = lemon b = banana c = apple
Названия фруктов были отсортированы в обратном порядке и ключи, ассоциированные с элементами, были сохранены.
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User Contributed Notes
arsort
sebas2day
07-May-2012 02:52
FatBat
13-Oct-2011 01:40
Needed to get the index of the max/highest value in an assoc array.
max() only returned the value, no index, so I did this instead.
<?php
reset($x); // optional.
arsort($x);
$key_of_max = key($x); // returns the index.
?>
jordancdarwin at googlemail dot com
15-Dec-2007 02:21
A lot of people seem to trip up on this and ask me questions as to debugging. Bear in mind that this returns boolean, and does not return an array of affected items.
$array = array("One"=>1, "Three" => 3,"Two" =>2);
print_r(asort($array));
If successful, will return 1, and error if there is a string used. Useful to note so then people stop asking me :D
Scott Woods
02-Feb-2005 08:21
Note about "morgan at anomalyinc dot com"'s comment:
As of PHP4, you can just use array_multisort() to sort parallel or multi-dimensional arrays.
rodders_plonker at yahoo dot com
21-Aug-2000 06:43
I was having trouble with the arsort() function on an older version of PHP which was returning an error along the lines of 'wrong perameter count for function arsort' when I tried to use a flag for numeric sorting (2/SORT_NUMERIC).
I figured, as I only wanted to sort integers, I could pad numbers from the left to a specific length with 0's (using the lpad function provided by improv@magma.ca in the notes at http://www.php.net/manual/ref.strings.php).
A string sort then correctly sorts numerically (i.e. {30,2,10,21} becomes {030,021,010,002} not {30,21,2,10}) when echoing the number an (int)$string_name hides the leading 0's.
Made my day :).
Rodders.
morgan at anomalyinc dot com
24-Nov-1999 07:30
If you need to sort a multi-demension array, for example, an array such as
$TeamInfo[$TeamID]["WinRecord"]
$TeamInfo[$TeamID]["LossRecord"]
$TeamInfo[$TeamID]["TieRecord"]
$TeamInfo[$TeamID]["GoalDiff"]
$TeamInfo[$TeamID]["TeamPoints"]
and you have say, 100 teams here, and want to sort by "TeamPoints":
first, create your multi-dimensional array. Now, create another, single dimension array populated with the scores from the first array, and with indexes of corresponding team_id... ie
$foo[25] = 14
$foo[47] = 42
or whatever.
Now, asort or arsort the second array.
Since the array is now sorted by score or wins/losses or whatever you put in it, the indices are all hoopajooped.
If you just walk through the array, grabbing the index of each entry, (look at the asort example. that for loop does just that) then the index you get will point right back to one of the values of the multi-dimensional array.
Not sure if that's clear, but mail me if it isn't...
-mo