sotring a list

[dominant]

Hi all.

I have a list of dates into an array and i want to sort them ASC.

Can i do that?

[sarah]

Try sort()

[laserlight]

well, PHP has a few array sorting functions, you can easily write your own.

I suggest that you check the PHP manual on this.

[dominant]

i am afraid that the sorting will be done not by date but as strings

I want just to sort them like Mysql does when you call ORDER BY date ASC

[laserlight]

oh, then you could convert the dates to integers by using say, [man]strtotime/man, sort it, then convert back.

[sarah]

What about...

<?
$dateArray=array("2003-04-07","2003-02-09","2002-04-07","2004-12-05","2001-07-06","2001-07-05");
sort ($dateArray,SORT_NUMERIC);
reset ($dateArray);
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($dateArray)) {
    echo "dateArray[".$key."] = ".$val."<br>\n";
}
?>

[dominant]

Thank you for your response!

Now if i want to sort the DESC just reverse the order of array (correct me if i am wrong)

[sarah]

Do it exactly the same except use rsort instead of sort...

[dominant]

Thank you again!

[dominant]

Now i have another problem.

i have a 2D array.

$array[0][0]=date; $array[0][1]=string;

How then can it be sorted? I mean sort only the dates .