sorting multi-dimensional arrays

I'm having a little trouble sorting mult-dimensional arrays by key... I looked-up the manual and found out that array_multisort() thing... but I don't think it does what I want... or I don't understand it... I have an array like this... $categories=array(); $categories[0]["id"]=1; $categories[0]["name"]="Xyz"; $categories[0]["id"]=7; $categories[0]["name"]="Lala"; $categories[0]["id"]=2; $categories[0]["name"]="Lele"; I want it sorted by "name"... the way I'm doing it right now is by using an auxiliar array that gets all the names, sorts them, and then build a new array based on that... is a better way? p.s: meu novo email é cdechery@easynet.com.br ____________________________ . Christian Dechery (lemming) . http://www.tanamesa.com.br . Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer