I am trying to sort an array, but by default I can only get it sorted by the record number.
i.e. the array looks like this for example
array(0=array('id','username'), 1=array('id','username'));
if I try to sort it, it sorts by the 0
and 1
values, I cannot get it to sort into the id
& username
array.
How can i sort the main array acording to the username in the child arrays?
Here is what you need to do,
Sorting using ids
$a = array(array('idC','usernameC'), array('idA','usernameA'), array('idB','usernameB'));
$id = array();
foreach ($a as $key => $row)
{
$id[$key] = $row[0];
}
array_multisort($id, SORT_ASC, $a);
print_r($a);
will output
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => idA
[1] => usernameA
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => idB
[1] => usernameB
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => idC
[1] => usernameC
)
)