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[Allen Shaw]

Wish I could answer that for you, Tim.  I've always done it this way and 
hadn't thought of uasort() before Scott and Dan mentioned it.  Hopefully 
they'll be able to comment on it, because I'm curious, too.

- Allen

Timothy Boyden wrote:
> Scott's solution worked for me, but is there any performance/security
> benefit from Allen's suggestion?
> 
> -Tim 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> On Behalf Of Allen Shaw
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] How to sort a multi-dimensional array by a
> given key?
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> array_multisort() should do the trick.  See the manual
> (http://php.net/array_multisort) for some examples ("Example 256. 
> Sorting database results") much like what you're describing.
> 
> Essentially, you'll have to loop through the array to create another
> array something like:
> 	$sortDistance['SCID1']=>20
> 	$sortDistance['SCID2']=>10
> and then call:
> 	array_multisort($franchises, $sortDistance);
> 
> 
> 
> - Allen
> 
> 
> Timothy Boyden wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>> 
>>I have a multi-dimensional array such as:
>> 
>>$franchises['SCID1'] = SCNYC
>>$franchises['SCID1']['BusinessName'] = SuperCoups of NY City
>>$franchises['SCID1']['DistanceFromCustomer'] = 20
>>$franchises['SCID2'] = SCBUFF
>>$franchises['SCID2']['BusinessName'] = SuperCoups of Buffalo
>>$franchises['SCID2']['DistanceFromCustomer'] = 10
>> 
>>How can I sort this array so the businesses are sorted by the 
>>DistanceFromCustomer key?
>> 
>>Thanks for the help in advance,
>> 
>>Tim
>>
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>>
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