Adding order to chaos, or now I know my ABC's...

[banpro]

Okay, here's the dilema I'm facing. I have a constantly growing list of unordered names (in a text file) that I need to reorder into an alphabetised list each time it's updated.

I know there must be a simple way of doing this with PHP, probably starting with an array of the alphabet I'd imagine, but it completely eludes me.

If someone could offer me a little direction on where I should be heading to make this work I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

[laserlight]

One simple way would be to read in the names using [man]file/man then add the entry to the correct point in this array, and write it back to the file.

[banpro]

Well duh, in my tired state I was completely missing the sort() command. If my script allows a user to 'append' the text file, adding the new user's name to the end of the file, couldn't I then just use file() and sort() to rewrite the contents of the file in alphabetic order?

I can't test it tonight but in theory this should work, correct?

Thanks,
Scott