Sorting problem, Similarity.

WinterDragon

Ok, now I just found out about the function similar_text(), and its a nice and handy little function. Now i can do this displaying 100% and stuff, but its all not in order. Now, you see where it says $better[$i], that was my attempt of putting into a multi-dimensional array, DID NOT WORK lol... I am not great with this... How might I arrange these to show up in percentage found (which is the $p, and its not a percent, its a actual integer.) Thanks for any help.

$better = array();
$array = array("google", "metallica", "shilla", "hostultra", "phpbuilder", "dillfrog", "php", "nodeka");
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($array);$i++) {
$percent = similar_text($array[$i], "metallica", &$p);
$p = intval($p);
echo "$array[$i] returned $p%<Br>";
$better[$i] = $array[$i];
$better[$i][0] = $p;
}

dalecosp

You might be able to do it with usort() .

I hacked around for a minute or two and hadn't quite got it figured, but was making progress. I'm sure that if I wanted to spend the time, it might go.

Someone else might have an even better way...<?> There are a couple of sorting functions that are already defined, for example...

blindeddie

I made some modifications to the original code you posted and have reposted it below:

$better = array();
$array = array("google", "metallica", "shilla", "hostultra", "phpbuilder", "dillfrog", "php", "nodeka");
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($array);$i++) {
$percent = similar_text($array[$i], "metallica", &$p);
$p = intval($p);
echo "$array[$i] returned $p%<Br>";
$better[$i] = $p."-".$array[$i];
//$better[$i][0] = $p;
}
//echo sizeof($percent);
array_multisort ($better,SORT_NUMERIC,SORT_DESC);
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($better);$i++) {
echo $better[$i]."<Br>";

}

with a little work it may be able to work for you.