Question

I am trying to push values onto an array like so:

$scoreValues[$i][] = $percent ;
$scoreValues[$i][] = '<span id="item'.$i.'" class="suggestElement" data-entityid="'.$row['id'].'" data-match="'.$percent.'">'.rawurldecode($row['name']).'</span>' ;

I basically want to link together the $percent with the string, so I get an output like:

array (0 > array('46.5', '<span etc etc')

I then plan to sort by the percent sub-array so I have the highest scoring strings at the top.

Answer 1

Simplest way would be to use two arrays :

$percents[$i] = $percent;
$scores[$i] = "<span....>");

Or one array, but indexed like this

$data = new arrray('percents' => array(), 'scores' => array());
$data['percents'][$i] = $percent;
$data['scores'][$i] = "<span....>");

Once this is done, you then sort your arrays using array_multisort :

array_multisort(
   $data['percents'], SORT_DESC,
   $data['scores']);