When looping your SELECT result (or whatever), feed two arrays:
$arr[] = array(
"name" => "marmite",
"tally" => 10 ) ;
+ an "index" array that will serve to rank items:
$rank[] = 10 ;
Now you sort $rank on the value.
The whole idea is that you will not need to sort $arr (you can, but it is
needlessly complicated: usort()...)
To call the elements of $arr in the right order, loop $rank:
foreach ( $rank as $r ) {
// the element you need is $arr[$rank[$r]]['name'], etc.
HTH
Ignatius
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From: "DaMouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP - Win" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 6:17 AM
Subject: [PHP-WIN] array problem need help quick
I need help with a array problem I want one array to be sorted and another
taking its same number order e.g.
$ar1[0] == "marmite"; $ar2[0] == 10;
$ar1[1] == "jam"; $ar2[1] == 11;
$ar1[2] == "beef"; $ar2[2] == 7;
$ar1[3] == "cabbage"; $ar2[3] == 0;
$ar1[4] == "ick"; $ar2[4] == 5;
sort($ar2,SORT_NUMERIC); and then make sure that the values of $ar1 are with
there vote number counterparts in $ar2 so now
$ar2[0] == 0; $ar1[0] == "cabbage";
please help
Ensign Baker
HCO Officer
USS Atlantis
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