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woninana
woninana

Reputation: 3481

Alphabetically sort the rows of a 2d array containing only one column of values

$name = [
    ['Jane Smith'],
    ['John Paul'],
    ['Jennifer'],
    ['Paolo'],
    ['Delilah'],
];

Is it possible to alphabetically arrange this array? How can I use the sort() in here?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 232

Answers (5)

Arjan
Arjan

Reputation: 9874

Since it looks like you're trying to sort an array of arrays of strings instead of an array of strings, you cannot use sort().

$array = array(array('Jane Smith'), array('John Paul'), array('Jennifer'));

function cmp($a, $b)
{
    $a = $a[0];
    $b = $b[0];
    if ($a == $b) {
        return 0;
    }
    return ($a < $b) ? -1 : 1;
}

usort($array, "cmp");

foreach($name as $a){
    print_r($a);
}

Example code based on this documentation.

Upvotes: 0

SAVAFA
SAVAFA

Reputation: 818

Take a look at here for all kinds of PHP array sorting. But for your specific question after doing array_merge() on all you arrays to have a single onw, either sort() or asort() should work just like this:

$all=array();
foreach($name as $a){
    $all=array_merge($all, $a);
}
sort($all);
print_r($all);

OR

$all=array();
foreach($name as $a){
    $all=array_merge($all, $a);
}
asort($a);
print_r($a);

Upvotes: -1

Prasanth Bendra
Prasanth Bendra

Reputation: 32710

Try this :

$array  = your array

$result = call_user_func_array('array_merge', $array);
sort($result);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);

Upvotes: 4

Vijaya Pandey
Vijaya Pandey

Reputation: 4282

Try this:

<?php

$ar1 = array("Jane Smith", "John Paul ", "Jennifer", "Paolo","Delilah");
function alphasort($a, $b) {
    if ($a['name'] == $b['name']) {
        return 0;
    }
    return ($a['name'] < $b['name']) ? -1 : 1;
}

usort ($ar1,'alphasort');
echo '<pre>';
print_r($ar1);

?>

Result:

Array
(
    [0] => Delilah
    [1] => Jane Smith
    [2] => Jennifer
    [3] => John Paul 
    [4] => Paolo
)

Upvotes: 2

GautamD31
GautamD31

Reputation: 28763

Try like

$array  = your array;
asort($array);

Try this LINK

Upvotes: 0

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