note 33040 deleted from function.array-multisort by aidan
| From: | aidan@php.net | Date: | Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:56:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 33040 deleted from function.array-multisort by aidan | ||
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Note Submitter: Ichier (www.ichier.de)
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ok, now i made it a real (prooved) function, cause i needed to sort by two of the columns and it
didn't work, sorting twice...
is was kinda tricky, cause i never handled with eval in php, but now it's quite superb - ok i
didn't any errorhandling, but who cares *g*
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the function:
<?php
function array_csort() { //coded by Ichier2003
$args = func_get_args();
$marray = array_shift($args);
$msortline = "return(array_multisort(";
foreach ($args as $arg) {
$i++;
if (is_string($arg)) {
foreach ($marray as $row) {
$sortarr[$i][] = $row[$arg];
}
} else {
$sortarr[$i] = $arg;
}
$msortline .= "\$sortarr[".$i."],";
}
$msortline .= "\$marray));";
eval($msortline);
return $marray;
}
?>
the fine thing is, you can add as many parameters you need, and you can add sort_flags as well (but
be shure not to put em into " or ' - took some time for me to get this *g*)
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syntax:
$new_array = array_multisort($array [, 'col1' [, SORT_FLAG [, SORT_FLAG]]]...);
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explanation:
$array is the array you want to sort, 'col1' is the name of the column you want to sort,
SORT_FLAGS are : SORT_ASC, SORT_DESC, SORT_REGULAR, SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_STRING
you can repeat the 'col',FLAG,FLAG, as often you want, the highest prioritiy is given to
the first - so the array is sorted by the last given column first, then the one before ...
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example:
in my case the array has it's index as first dimension (i like that for using foreach later):
$array[0]['name'] = "Niko";
$array[0]['age'] = 24;
$array[0]['town'] = "Berlin";
$array[1]['name'] = "Dennis";
$array[1]['age'] = 34;
$array[1]['town'] = "Berlin";
$array[2]['name'] = "Oliver";
$array[2]['age'] = 44;
$array[2]['town'] = "Aachen";
$array[3]['name'] = "Andi";
$array[3]['age'] = 34;
$array[3]['town'] = "Berlin";
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use the function like this:
$array = array_csort($array,'town','age',SORT_DESC,'name');
here the resulting array would be:
$array[0]['name'] = "Oliver";
$array[0]['age'] = 44;
$array[0]['town'] = "Aachen";
$array[1]['name'] = "Andi";
$array[1]['age'] = 34;
$array[1]['town'] = "Berlin";
$array[2]['name'] = "Dennis";
$array[2]['age'] = 34;
$array[2]['town'] = "Berlin";
$array[3]['name'] = "Niko";
$array[3]['age'] = 24;
$array[3]['town'] = "Berlin";
that should be enough :)
.. waiting this fuc to be included to the next php-release *gg*
hope it helps you..Niko