Re: usort comparison function

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:26:28PM -0700, Matthew Kendall wrote: > The usort function allows an array to be sorted on the basis of a > user-supplied function that compares two elements, like > usort($arr,cmp). > > A reader-annotation in the manual points out that the user function > cmp() cannot be a member of a class and this seems to be consistent > with my experiments, but it is somewhat ugly. Does anyone know if > there is a workaround for this? Is it possible to use a comparison > function that is anything other than a global function? > Specifically, I want to use this->cmp(). If you're using a recent version of PHP 4, you can use: usort($my_array, array($this, "cmp_function")); -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member