Posted by Robert Cummings on 03/09/05 06:26

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:56, Gabino Travassos wrote:
> Hello List
>
> I've looked at array_multisort( ), but it doesn't seem like the right
> function. Here's an example of my array, it's a listing of CD reviews:
> $cds=array(array("Lowest of the Low", 20050105,9,"Toronto"), array("Heavy
> Blinkers",20041020,6,"Chicago"), array("Apple,Fiona",20050308,5,"Seattle"));
>
> If I wanted to sort them alphabetically, no problem, just sort($cds).
> If I want to sort them by date (the second item in the array) or by ranking
> (the third), how do I do that?
>
> Is there something simple?

Simple as it gets for what you want:

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.usort.php

Cheers,
Rob.
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