array sorting

mikefn

Hi,

I have a table which has 3 columns (title, description, billrate).
It has many rows depend on values returned from database.
Now, I want to sort it based on title. Each title has its own description and billrate.
How do I do this?
Thanks.

Mike

pnoeric

Mike, have you seen the PHP array sort functions?

php.net/asort
php.net/arsort
php.net/ksort

and so forth... plus there's a great functions in the comments of each of those pages to do multi-dimensional array sorts if you need that (which it doesnt' sound like you do).

mikefn

Hi Eric,

I solved the array!
I'm using the ksort (by key).
Here's what I did:
<?
...
// in the for loop for variables every row
$rowsort[$title] = "$desc*$billrate";

...
// outside the loop
ksort($rowsort);
while(list($key,$val) = each ($rowsort))
{
$title = $key;
$getvar = explode("*", $val);
$desc = $getvar[0];
$billrate = $getvar[1];
... // rest of the codes
}

Thanks for the reference.

Mike

pnoeric

no prob, glad it worked for ya! best, Eric