Re: alphabetical order?

That doesnt really explain much to me unfortunately :( here is what I see in the manual <?php $order = array ($squads[1]); sort ($order); reset ($order); while (list ($key, $val) = each ($order)) { echo "order[".$key."] = ".$val."\n"; ?> so the array $order is declared, then is sorted. To me that means that I have to declare each fruit in the array. In my array $squads in the example below [0] is id number [1] is team name [2] is stadium and [4] is city. I want to alphabatize only the team name i.e. $squads[1] then after the team name is alphabatized (sorted) then the if...else statement is run ... so this is what i tried <html> <body> <select> <?php include ("C:\Program Files\EasyPHP\www\florentiaviola.com\control\config.php"); $fd = fopen ($teams, "r"); while (!feof ($fd)) { $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); $squads = explode("|", $buffer); $order = array ($squads[1]); sort ($order); reset ($order); while (list ($key, $val) = each ($order)) { if ($squads[1] == "Florentia Viola") { echo '<OPTION SELECTED VALUE="'.$squads[0].'">Florentia Viola</OPTION>'."\n"; } else { echo '<OPTION VALUE="'.$squads[0].'">'.$squads[1].'</OPTION>'."\n"; } } } fclose ($fd); ?> </html> </body> </select> What am I doing wrong?? Thanks again -Tree Jeremy Wilson <jwilson@intravative.com> wrote in message news:000201c25c89$ec2b70a0$4ac23342@intravative.com... > This will also help you > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-multisort.php > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Winger [mailto:cwinger@callistonet.com] > Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 11:57 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] alphabetical order? > > > If you've read some of my earlier posts, you know I'm a newbie at PHP, > so now im stuck at a point, and I'd like to see if anyone has a > suggestion. Ok, here is the problem...i have a text file on the server, > and in it are listed lines like this: > > 01|Brescello|stadium|city| > 02|Aglianese|stadium|city| > 03|Casteldisangro|stadium|city| > > and the following code is part of a php file that creates a form. > > <SELECT NAME="home"> > <?php > > include ("C:\path\to\config.php"); > > $fd = fopen ($teams, "r"); > while (!feof ($fd)) > { > $readlines = fgets($fd, 4096); > $squads = explode("|", $readlines); > if ($squads[1] == "Florentia Viola") { > echo '<OPTION SELECTED VALUE="'.$squads[0].'">Florentia > Viola</OPTION>'."\n"; > } else { > echo '<OPTION > VALUE="'.$squads[0].'">'.$squads[1].'</OPTION>'."\n"; > } > > } > fclose ($fd); > > ?> > </SELECT> > > What is does is create options in a dropdown menu. Right now the > outputted HTML would be > > <OPTION>Brescello</OPTION> > <OPTION>Aglianese</OPTION> > <OPTION>Casteldisangro</OPTION> > > Problem is that I would like it alphabatized, like so: > > <OPTION>Aglianese</OPTION> > <OPTION>Brescello</OPTION> > <OPTION>Casteldisangro</OPTION> > > I've done pretty well I think in the few days, i've tried learning this > stuff. but i have no idea on where to begin with this problem. > > ALso, as Im still pretty much a PHP infant, if anyone sees any little > things with my code that code be better (i.e. a way to simplify it etc) > let me know. Thanks I appreciate it > > -Tree > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >