Naturally sort an array of objects by column value

Question

I want to sort the values by ascending order.

I tried ksort, and other sorting examples.

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [tenure] => 1 year to less than 2 years
        )

    [1] => stdClass Object
        (
            [tenure] => 10 years to less than 15 years
        )

    [2] => stdClass Object
        (
            [tenure] => 15 years or more
        )

    [3] => stdClass Object
        (
            [tenure] => 2 years to less than 5 years
        )

    [4] => stdClass Object
        (
            [tenure] => 5 years to less than 10 years
        )

)

I want to sort the tenure values of the above array.

Rahul · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-21 14:48:16Z

2

You can use core array_multisort

array_multisort(array_column($array, 'tenure'),   
SORT_ASC, SORT_NATURAL, $array);

https://3v4l.org/cXNQH.

answered May 21, 2019 at 14:48

Rahul

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Nick Over a year ago

This is good. I forget that array_column works on arrays of objects too.

Nick · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-21 14:08:14Z

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Since your values all start with numbers, you can convert them to integers and sort on those using usort:

usort($array, function ($a, $b) { return (int)$a->tenure - (int)$b->tenure; });
print_r($array);

Output:

Array (
  [0] => stdClass Object (
    [tenure] => 1 year to less than 2 years
  )
  [1] => stdClass Object (
    [tenure] => 2 years to less than 5 years
  )
  [2] => stdClass Object (
    [tenure] => 5 years to less than 10 years
  )
  [3] => stdClass Object (
    [tenure] => 10 years to less than 15 years
  )
  [4] => stdClass Object (
    [tenure] => 15 years or more
  )
)

Demo on 3v4l.org

answered May 21, 2019 at 14:08

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Rakesh Jakhar · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-21 14:12:25Z

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You can use array_walk, ksort, You can change object to array using

$arr = (array) $object;

after that try this

$res=[];
array_walk($arr, function($v, $k) use (&$res){
  $key = substr($v['tenure'], 0, strspn($v['tenure'], "0123456789"));
  $res[$key] = $v;
});
ksort($res);

Working Demo

answered May 21, 2019 at 14:12

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