Posted by Sune Storgaard on 01/30/06 18:50

namemattersnot@msn.com wrote:
> i've have the following array:
>
> files['name'][1]
> ['size'][1]
> ['time'][1]
> files['name'][2]
> ['size'][2]
> ['mtime'][2]
> ..etc.
>
> how do I sort this array according to "time" index? so that, for
> example, files['name'][0] would give "my_file.txt" that was last
> created?

A little *dirty* trick is to rearrange the array into a new array, where the
time is first entry.
In this case, swap it around so you get
files
['time'][1]
['size'][1]
['name'][1]
When you sort it now, it will be correct as its sorted on first entry =
time.
Then swap it back to the original structure.

See the "smith / johnson/ berger" example at php.net/sort

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