note 20433 added to function.asort

From: Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:23:26 +0000
Subject: note 20433 added to function.asort
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Here's one I whipped up to allow you to sort an array of a specific class by a member or function: // Sort a class by one of its members (even lowercase!!!) function casort($arr, $var) { $tarr = array(); $rarr = array(); for($i = 0; $i < count($arr); $i++) { $element = $arr[$i]; $tarr[] = strtolower($element->{$var}); } reset($tarr); asort($tarr); $karr = array_keys($tarr); for($i = 0; $i < count($tarr); $i++) { $rarr[] = $arr[intval($karr[$i])]; } return $rarr; } It works very well. For example, I have a Room class with members title, isActive(), date, etc. I can sort an array by casort($rooms, "title") or casort($rooms, "isActive()") and it'll work. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.asort.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+20433 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+20433 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+20433

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