Hi, Thursday, February 5, 2004, 11:35:34 PM, you wrote: KS> I have been messing around now for some hours and Im going mad! KS> Im pulling some heavy data from mySQL with count and grouping, KS> after this I have to calculate som values and then sort the outcome. KS> Therefore Im not able to let mySQL do the accuall sort.
KS> So i stuff it into an array, and I need to sort the array and thats where KS> the problem occures. KS> 1. I declare an array : KS> $stats_unsorted = array(); KS> for loop start ... KS> 1. fetch mySQL data KS> 2. calculate values KS> array_push($stats_unsorted,$sum,$user); KS> // Eks. array_push($stats_unsorted,10,Ola); KS> // Eks. array_push($stats_unsorted,-5,Kaare); KS> // Eks. array_push($stats_unsorted,203,Nils); KS> // Eks. array_push($stats_unsorted,-20,Lars); KS> for loop end ... KS> We now have, e.g. this : KS> Array KS> ( KS> [0] => Array KS> ( KS> [0] => 10 KS> [1] => Ola KS> ) KS> [1] => Array KS> ( KS> [0] => -5 KS> [1] => Kaare KS> ) KS> [2] => Array KS> ( KS> [0] => 203 KS> [1] => Nils KS> ) KS> [3] => Array KS> ( KS> [0] => -20 KS> [1] => Tone KS> ) KS> ) KS> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KS> Then comes the sorting part, I want to sort by this : KS> $stats_unsorted[x][0] KS> meaning the numbers, ofcourse I would surely like to know KS> how to sort by the names aswell, $stats_unsorted[x][1], KS> but I would think that is easy if I could figure out the KS> main command to sort this in the first place. KS> Ive tried several times with array_multisort(); but I cant get this KS> to work, :( KS> Help would be appretiated! KS> $stats_SORTED = ???; KS> Thanks in advance! KS> -- KS> Kim Steinhaug KS> --------------------------------------------------------------- KS> There are 10 types of people when it comes to binary numbers: KS> those who understand them, and those who don't. KS> --------------------------------------------------------------- You can use usort for multi dimension arrays: <?php function cmp($a, $b) { if ($a[0] == $b[0]) { return 0; } return ($a[0] < $b[0]) ? -1 : 1; } $a = array( 0 => Array(0 => 10,1 => 'Ola'), 1 => Array(0 => -5,1 => 'Kaare'), 2 => Array(0 => 203,1 => 'Nils'), 3 => Array(0 => -20,1 => 'Tone')); usort($a, "cmp"); print_r($a); ?> -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php