Array sorting help

[Anon]

Hi

I have an array which is

$results[$key] = array ("$value[0]","$value[1]","$values[2]","$matches");

I need to sort it by the $matches section of the array.

I just can;t work it out, I have tried ksort, sort, natsort but still no luck.

Any ideas?

Cheers in advance

[rrijnders]

Looks like your trying to sequence the results of a search engine in order of the number of matches.

$matches is an array value in the second dimension of your associative array "$results". You cant sort by something that deep into your structure. You have to make $matches the key to the primary array if that is what you want to sort by.

When you write your results to the $results array, write to another array like:

$sortableArray[$key] = $matches;

Later, you can use <i>arsort</i> on $sortableArray and use $key to get the information from $results for output.

HTH
-- Rich

[Anon]

I think I get it excellent, cheers for that