array sorting

[Anon]

I have a little problem. I pull a list of model numbers from a mysql db based on what a user enters into a from.

ex. the user want to search for model 174. The search will return:
1174
12174113
174
p17411
174342

My question is how do I sort this so that the order will be the most relevant. (The ones with 174 closest to the start of the model number)
174
174342
p174342
1174
12174113

[van__]

use the similar_text() function in the string manual.

I don't have time to rewrite this in full, but it suffices to show the basic concept.

foreach($result as $key=>$val) {
similar_text(strtolower($original_var));
strtolower($result[$key][$hintFlag]), &$per);
//$per now contains a percent of similarity
if ($per>59) { // if 60%=< then we are close enough
$whole_num = explode('.',$per);
$comp[$whole_num[0]] = $result[$key][$hintFlag];
}

}