Sort Date Array

[vocoder]

I am using multisort to sort an array and keep the array "links" betwen each other intact.

array_multisort($date_array,SORT_DESC,$href_array,$body_array,$news_array);

my date string looks like this Sep 30 2002

it doesnt work because it sorts like this

Sep 30 2002
Sep 28 2002
Oct 01 2002

obviously, i want the Oct 01 2002 to appear before Sep 30 2002. how would i go about doing this, while still keeping the array "links" between each array intact?

[merkinmuffley]

this sounds like a problem with string-comparison sorting, where "01" is less than "28", and "Oct" is less than "Sep". you should first convert all the dates to timestamps, then sort numerically. you can convert the timestamps back to a readable date straight after the sort is done, or even better, only when you want to display them.