Re: Sort two coupled arrays [my solution]

At 10:26 AM -0400 4/8/10, Robert Cummings wrote:

tedd wrote:

At 8:28 AM -0400 4/8/10, Andrew Ballard wrote:

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Ryan Sun <ryansun81@gmail.com> wrote:

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

That's the ticket. The solution is pretty simple now that we understand the nature of the problem. :-) Andrew

Andrew: Half the solution is understanding the problem. However, the above solution only solves half the problem.

Maybe I'm confused... but can't the following be used? <?php

    array_multisort( $votes, SORT_DESC, $items, SORT_DESC );
    $final = array_combine( $items, $votes );

    print_r( $final );

?> Cheers, Rob.

Rob: You're never confused because you are always right. Congrats, you were the first to solve this problem this simply. To tell the truth, I didn't fully understand how array_multisort() worked until I reviewed your solution. I thought array_multisort() was to sort multi-dimensional arrays and simply overlooked the description that it could also sort several arrays at once. Duh -- sometimes my reading/comprehension skills suck. Many thanks for your time. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com