Need help on ordering an associative array

[s_shrum]

I am constructing the following array:

While (...) {
$database_vars['match']++;
$file_array[$database_vars['match']]['name'] = $entry;
$file_array[$database_vars['match']]['length'] = $filename_length;
$file_array[$database_vars['match']]['base'] = $basename;
$file_array[$database_vars['match']]['ext'] = $ext;
$file_array[$database_vars['match']]['type'] = $type;
$file_array[$database_vars['match']]['size'] = $size;
}

Now, I would like to write a function in which I can pass an array, and any number of sub-array names to do sorting on.

Anyone have code already written to do this??? Something like:

$file_array = my_array_sorter( $file_array, 'name', 'size', ...);

Which would sort first on the 'name' sub array and then the 'size' plus whatever else I had (if any).

I could probably code this but it would take me a couple of days to do and I'm pretty sure somebody has done something like this.

TIA

Sean Shrum

[diego25]

I believe PHP already has such a function. I think it's array_multisort(). If that's not the one, check out the other sort functions...

Diego

[s_shrum]

array_multisort looks like it's what I want but I can't seem to get the syntax right.

Let's say I want to sort on the 'name'. I've tryed:

array_multisort ($file_array[1], SORT_ASC, SORT_STRING);

But I'm not getting the results sorted by name. If I use [0] as the sort field, PHP complains that the 1st arguement needs to be an array.

Any help in this area???

TIA

Sean Shrum