Req #54259 [NEW]: Add SORT_NONE type to array_mulitsort

From: Operating system: OS X 10.6 PHP version: 5.3.5 Package: Arrays related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Add SORT_NONE type to array_mulitsort Description: ------------ It'd be useful to have a SORT_NONE option in the array_multisort function. This would allow users to specify that they do not care to sort along a particular index. In the sample code below, I've attached one possible use arising in Drupal. (See http://drupal.org/node/972536). Generically, we want to sort some array ($menu) before inserting it into the database. To do so, we first compute the desired sort order ($sort) and then call the array_multisort function as array_multisort($sort, SORT_NUMERIC, $menu); This works great, sorting $menu according to the sort order in $sort, however if $menu contains any objects the array_multisort function throws an error (Notice: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to int in ...). I'm proposing the addition of a SORT_NONE option so that the function call could instead be array_multisort($sort, SORT_NUMERIC, $menu, SORT_NONE); This would not throw an error since no comparisons would be done with the attributes of $menu. Implementing this should be relatively straightforward, I would imagine. Test script: --------------- $sort = array( 'A' => 2, 'A' => 1, 'B' => 1, ); $menu['A'] = array( 'access' => array(1), ); $menu['B'] = array( 'access' => array((object) array('a', 'b')), ); $menu['C'] = array( 'access' => array(0), ); array_multisort($sort, SORT_NUMERIC, $menu, SORT_NONE); Expected result: ---------------- $sort = Array ( [C] => 1 [B] => 1 [A] => 2 ) $menu = Array ( [C] => Array ( [access] => Array ( [0] => 0 ) ) [B] => Array ( [access] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [0] => a [1] => b ) ) ) [A] => Array ( [access] => Array ( [0] => 1 ) ) ) Actual result: -------------- (Not applicable, since this is a feature request). -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54259&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54259&r=mysqlcfg