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[Scott Trudeau]

Dan's solution is slightly more compact and a bit easier to generalize
if you're doing different kinds of sorts, but it's the same basic
idea.

Scott

On 5/7/07, Allen Shaw <ashaw at polymerdb.org> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>---------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>  Timothy Boyden
> >>
> >>/Network Administrator/
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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