Re: Sort two coupled arrays {my solution]

rsort(array_combine(array2, array1)); you should expect array( 'Personal Email' => 75, 'USPS mail' => 40, 'Personal Phone' => 31, 'Web site' => 31, 'Text Message' => 31 ) logically, the items are your key but not the count of votes On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:29 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > At 5:35 PM -0400 4/7/10, Andrew Ballard wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> >> wrote: >> Array indexes have to be unique regardless of whether they are numeric >> or strings. > > Ahhh, so you start to see the problem, eh? > > Let's look at the problem again (a vote collection problem): > > Array 1 > ( >    [1] => 75 >    [2] => 31 >    [3] => 31 >    [4] => 31 >    [5] => 40 > ) > > Array 1 is an array that contains the count of votes ($votes[] ) for the > index. IOW, index 1 received 75 votes. > > Array 2 > ( >    [1] => Personal Email >    [2] => Personal Phone >    [3] => Web site >    [4] => Text Message >    [5] => USPS mail > ) > > Array 2 is an array that contains the names for the items ($items[] ) voted > upon. As such, index 1 (Personal Email) received 75 votes. > > Now, I have this data in two different arrays and I wanted to combine the > data into one array and then preform a descend sort. > > This is the way I solved it: > > $final = array(); > > for($i =1; $i <=5; $i++) >   { >   $final[$i][] = $votes[$i]; >   $final[$i][] = $items[$i]; >   } > > echo("<pre>"); > echo('<br>'); > print_r($final); > echo('<br>'); > > array_multisort($final, SORT_DESC); > > echo('<br>'); > print_r($final); > echo('<br>'); > echo("</pre>"); > > I was hoping that someone might present something clever. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com >  http://ancientstones.com >  http://earthstones.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >