note 86552 rejected from function.array-multisort by danbrown

Note Submitter: matt at idizinc dot com ---- I looked on some forms for an answer to this simple problem and couldn't find one so I came up with a solution that may help in some situations. How do you sort an array by a field in that array and resolve numeric ties randomly? Code: <?php foreach($list as $temp_list) { $sort_aux[] = ($temp_list['column_to_sort_by']+(rand(1, 9)/10)); } array_multisort($sort_aux, SORT_NUMERIC, $list); ?> Example: $list[]=array('name'=>'Tom', 'score'=>3); $list[]=array('name'=>'Sam', 'score'=>3); $list[]=array('name'=>'Joey', 'score'=>1); Explanation: I took an existing example found above that shows how to sort an array by one of it's columns/fields. I just added: "+(rand(1,9)/10)" To randomly add .1 through .9 to their score to resolve the tie. (Obviously this specific example only works if you're sorting by an integer... so you may need to modify it to suit your needs.) Hope this helps someone.