rsort(array_combine(array2, array1));
you should expect array(
'Personal Email' => 75,
'USPS mail' => 40,
'Personal Phone' => 31,
'Web site' => 31,
'Text Message' => 31
)
logically, the items are your key but not the count of votes
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:29 PM, tedd <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 5:35 PM -0400 4/7/10, Andrew Ballard wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com>
>> wrote:
>> Array indexes have to be unique regardless of whether they are numeric
>> or strings.
>
> Ahhh, so you start to see the problem, eh?
>
> Let's look at the problem again (a vote collection problem):
>
> Array 1
> (
> [1] => 75
> [2] => 31
> [3] => 31
> [4] => 31
> [5] => 40
> )
>
> Array 1 is an array that contains the count of votes ($votes[] ) for the
> index. IOW, index 1 received 75 votes.
>
> Array 2
> (
> [1] => Personal Email
> [2] => Personal Phone
> [3] => Web site
> [4] => Text Message
> [5] => USPS mail
> )
>
> Array 2 is an array that contains the names for the items ($items[] ) voted
> upon. As such, index 1 (Personal Email) received 75 votes.
>
> Now, I have this data in two different arrays and I wanted to combine the
> data into one array and then preform a descend sort.
>
> This is the way I solved it:
>
> $final = array();
>
> for($i =1; $i <=5; $i++)
> {
> $final[$i][] = $votes[$i];
> $final[$i][] = $items[$i];
> }
>
> echo("<pre>");
> echo('<br>');
> print_r($final);
> echo('<br>');
>
> array_multisort($final, SORT_DESC);
>
> echo('<br>');
> print_r($final);
> echo('<br>');
> echo("</pre>");
>
> I was hoping that someone might present something clever.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
>
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