Re: Date Sorting

Try using any of the sort functions: sort asort arsort ksort krsort ... That should get you started. -- Ray On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 07:18, Greg Wiley wrote: > Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find > anything on google or any of the PHP code sites that quite fits my > requirements. Here's the problem: > > I have a form which presents the user with a table of dates with > checkboxes for a three month period, e.g. > > Dec 7th 14th 21st 28th > am [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] > pm [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] > > Jan 4th 11th 18th 25th > am [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] > pm [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] > > Feb 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th > am [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] > pm [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] > > When the user submits the form with any of the boxes checked I > want to have these sorted into date order. > > If I check Dec 28th am and pm, Jan 4th am and pm, Jan 18th am and > pm and Feb 15th am and pm then the order returned in the _POST is: > > Dec 28 am, Dec 28 pm, Jan 4 am, Jan 18 am, Jan 4 pm, Jan 18 pm, > Feb 15 am, Feb 15 pm > > This is, I believe, due to the order of the elements in the form. > I tried using tabindex to influence the order returned but to no > avail. So I'm now trying to do this in the php code that processes > the submission. There is no year info such that I could turn the > dates into timestamp and sort that way. Has anyone got any code > that can sort this correctly? > > Cheers, Greg. > -- > Greg Wiley > http://wileysworld.org/