note 27583 modified in function.usort by thiago

Thankyou to franky at iname dot com for his solution to my problem although i'd like to clarify something because the use for this isn't entirely obvious at first glance. I like to define my arrays to look like tables in a database or spreadsheet as follows (it looks tidy is the only reason!): Row(s) Column(s) -------------> | $array[0] = array("1", "2","3"); | $array[1] = array("1", "2","3"); \/ $array[2] = array("1", "2","3"); This "array of arrays" seems to behave differently to normal associative or multi-dimension arrays when sorting but using franky's routine.... <?php function cmp ($a, $b) { global $w_o; if ($a[$w_o] == $b[$w_o]) return 0; return ($a[$w_o] < $b[$w_o]) ? -1 : 1; } ?> ...you simply specify the column you want to sort by defining $w_o and call "usort($my_array,"cmp");". This might seem obvious to some people but wasn't to me and I hope this helps others in the same situation. Thanks.... --was-- Thankyou to franky at iname dot com for his solution to my problem although i'd like to clarify something because the use for this isn't entirely obvious at first glance. I like to define my arrays to look like tables in a database or spreadsheet as follows (it looks tidy is the only reason!): Row(s) Column(s) -------------> | $array[0] = array("1", "2","3"); | $array[1] = array("1", "2","3"); \/ $array[2] = array("1", "2","3"); This "array of arrays" seems to behave differently to normal associative or multi-dimension arrays when sorting but using franky's routine.... function cmp ($a, $b) { global $w_o; if ($a[$w_o] == $b[$w_o]) return 0; return ($a[$w_o] < $b[$w_o]) ? -1 : 1; } ...you simply specify the column you want to sort by defining $w_o and call "usort($my_array,"cmp");". This might seem obvious to some people but wasn't to me and I hope this helps others in the same situation. Thanks.... http://php.net/manual/en/function.usort.php