note 27371 deleted from function.sort by derick

Note Submitter: mbevan at marginsoftware dot com ---- I've noticed that if you try to sort an assoc. array, it strips the names of the elements, as can be seen by the following code and it's output: <?php $fruitcolors = array ("lemon"=>"yellow", "orange"=>"orange", "banana"=>"yellow", "apple"=>"red"); sort ($fruitcolors); reset ($fruitcolors); print_r($fruitcolors); } ?> Output: Array ( [0] => orange [1] => red [2] => yellow [3] => yellow ) Which is useless if the name of each element is important (as it is in the above example). How to sort the above array without loosing the keys? There has to be a simple way of doing this that is elusive to me.