How do I sort an associative array by field?

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I have this bit of code here and I want to sort the $lessons array by the 'available' field. The array itself contains the lesson ID and the time when the due to start in epoch. I want to sort the time with the first one being the one that is due to start the soonest. I've looked around on the internet but I still don't understand how to use the different sorting functions...

Any help would be great.

    $lessons = array();
    foreach($lessonsArray as $lesson)//for each lesson get the starting time and its lesson id
    {   
        $lessons[] = array( 'id' => $lesson['id'], 'available' => $lesson['available']);            
    }

Possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/777597/…

Josh
– Josh

2012-02-29 17:51:39 +00:00
Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 17:51 — Josh
– Josh, Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 17:51
Possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/2382326/…

trutheality
– trutheality

2012-02-29 17:52:48 +00:00
Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 17:52 — trutheality
– trutheality, Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 17:52

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-20 22:45:59Z

0

Try 'uasort()' which receives a callback function as its second parameter. Create the callback function to compare two element arrays in the way you want,

function lessonCompare($a, $b) {
    if ($a['available'] == $b['available']) {
        return 0;
    }
    return ($a['available'] < $b['available']) ? -1 : 1;
}

then call

uasort($lessons, 'lessonCompare');

edited Nov 20, 2023 at 22:45

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