note 90425 added to function.asort

i made this sample multi dimensional array sort to someone who needed to read lines from a text file instead of using sql - order by statement. the idea is to take the key and sort(order) the specific column and then order the entire of the array as the selected column asort returned. <?php /** * * This sample is reading text data * and perform a sort to a 2 dimensional array * just like a normal sql do to "order by asc" * */ $foo = array(); /* # SORT_REGULAR - compare items normally (don't change types) # SORT_NUMERIC - compare items numerically # SORT_STRING - compare items as strings */ $sort_by = SORT_REGULAR; /* # 0 - order by name column # 1 - order by age column # 2 - order by rank column # 3 - order by color column */ $order_by = 1; // source file $line_of_text[1] = 'a1name|f2age|h3rank|jcolor'; $line_of_text[2] = 'b1name|d2age|i3rank|k4color'; $line_of_text[0] = 'c1name|e2age|g3rank|l4color'; // make array for ($x=0; $x<=2; $x++) { $line = explode('|',$line_of_text[$x]); // save it by coulmns otherwise it will saved like rows for ($i=0; $i<=3; $i++) { $foo[$i][$x] = $line[$i]; } } // get the key order $a = $foo[$order_by]; // sort asort($a, $sort_by); // start print echo "<table cellpudding=0 cellspacing=0 border=1>\n"; echo "<tr>\n"; echo "<td>key</td>\n"; echo "<td>name</td>\n"; echo "<td>age</td>\n"; echo "<td>rank</td>\n"; echo "<td>color</td>\n"; echo "</tr>\n"; // print by key order foreach ($a as $k => $v) { echo "<tr>\n"; echo "<td>$k</td>\n"; // you can print here a for loop (0 to num of columns[=3]) echo "<td>".$foo[0][$k]."</td>\n"; echo "<td>".$foo[1][$k]."</td>\n"; echo "<td>".$foo[2][$k]."</td>\n"; echo "<td>".$foo[3][$k]."</td>\n"; echo "</tr>\n"; } echo "</table>\n"; ?> ---- Server IP: 212.199.163.191 Probable Submitter: 89.138.93.211 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.asort.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90425 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90425 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90425 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php