Sorting

[Anon]

I saw a 'quick sort function' script in the shared code library, however I couldn't figure out what it was doing to modify it to my needs. I need the script to open a file, sort its contents alphabetically by name, and close the file.

The problem is that the contents of the file are links, and without experience I'm baffled.

If you could give me a little example of code to get me started that would be greatly appreciated...

[Anon]

Something like this will sort each line by alphabetical order.

<?
$file = file("filename.txt");
sort($file);
$fp = fopen("filename.txt","w");
for($count=0;$count<count($file);$count++)
{
fputs($fp,$file[$count]);
}
fclose($fp);
?>

The only issue with sort is that it sorts in ascii order, so AC is before Ab. I just picked that up in a comment on the manual page for sort(). If all of your links are in the form, www.something.com, all lowercase, then it shouldn't be an issue. If they're not lowercase, then you should use the strtolower() funtion when you save them, to make sure they are all lowercase.

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

Or you could use asort() :-)

[Anon]

Thanks, both those methods work great.