Newsgroup: it.comp.www.php
Titolo: array e array_multisort

Salve a tutti,
dovrei ordinare un array di questo tipo in base a numero di position... per 
fare cio' pensavo di usare l'array_multisort($array["position"],SORT_ASC, 
SORT_REGULAR) ma non funziona... e ad essere sincero gli array in php mi 
fanno molta confusione... in questo caso posso considerare [stringa1] al 
pari di [0] giusto? ma come faccio a estrarre il valore "stringa1" senza 
ricorrere a un foreach?
grazie a tutti
dade
ecco l'array:
Array
(
    [stringa1] => Array
        (
            [name] => name
            [description] => name
            [menu] => pippo
            [position] => 999
        )
    [stringa2] => Array
        (
            [name] => name
            [description] => name
            [menu] => pippo
            [position] => 998
        )
    [stringa3] => Array
        (
            [name] => name
            [description] => name
            [menu] => pippo
            [position] => 1
        )
)

 Salve a tutti,
Consiglio sempre questa funzione, presa da 
php.net
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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:
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
-- 
doh!