Re: sorting array question

hi guys, thanks for the replies! yes Melanie, you were correct the last example (i had an old version of the manual). seemed to do the trick =) Thanks to john as well for the reply. Angelo Melanie Maddix wrote:

[snip] So they way I want to sort these rows is by total, totalPaid, totalUnpaid all descending. Output should be: partnerID | partnerName | total | totalPaid | totalUnpaid

5                  berty               30    12                18
7                  sarah               19    12                7        1                  marc               12      5                7

I have looked at the manual and found uasort and array_multisort, but these don't seem to be appropriate unless Im missing something but the examples found are very vague. If anyone can help that would be great, Thanks in advance Angelo [/snip] Hi Angelo, Take a look at Example 3 under array_multisort, the one that sorts by volume and edition. You first build arrays of the columns you want to sort by, then pass them as an argument to array_multisort, along with your original array. Melanie

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