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Reputation: 10649

PHP: How to sort multidimentional array values

I am trying to sort a multidimensional array by priority:

$arr['fruits'][0]['banana']['color'] = 'yellow';
$arr['fruits'][0]['banana']['qty'] = '50';
$arr['fruits'][0]['banana']['priority'] = 3;

$arr['fruits'][1]['apple']['color'] = 'red';
$arr['fruits'][1]['apple']['qty'] = '75';
$arr['fruits'][1]['apple']['priority'] = 1;

$arr['fruits'][2]['grape']['color'] = 'purple';
$arr['fruits'][2]['grape']['qty'] = '100';
$arr['fruits'][2]['grape']['priority'] = 5;

How do I sort this array in order to get the values sorted by priority?

$arr['fruits'][0]['apple']['color'] = 'red';
$arr['fruits'][0]['apple']['qty'] = 75;

$arr['fruits'][1]['banana']['color'] = 'yellow';
$arr['fruits'][1]['banana']['qty'] = 50;

$arr['fruits'][2]['grape']['color'] = 'purple';
$arr['fruits'][2]['grape']['qty'] = 100;

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

Don't Panic
Don't Panic

Reputation: 41810

Same way as usual, with usort. The trick for this specific one is that the things you're sorting have one extra array level inside with a string key that you won't know in advance. You can get it using reset though.

usort($arr['fruits'], function($a, $b) {
    return reset($a)['priority'] <=> reset($b)['priority'];
});

This is assuming that each of the numeric keys in $arr['fruits'] will hold a single array with only one string key (the name of the fruit). IMO the numeric index doesn't seem useful for this data, and I would use a structure where the fruit name is the key directly under fruits, like 

$arr['fruits'] = [
    'banana' => ['color' => 'yellow', 'qty' => '50',  'priority' => 3],
    'apple' =>  ['color' => 'red',    'qty' => '75',  'priority' => 1],
    'grape' =>  ['color' => 'purple', 'qty' => '100', 'priority' => 5],
];

which you could sort with uasort to preserve the string keys.

uasort($arr['fruits'], function($a, $b) {
    return $a['priority'] <=> $b['priority'];
});

But I don't know the whole picture; there may be some reason you need to have it the other way.

Upvotes: 2

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