Question

I have a script which gets some values from a DB.

The structure of the vars is as the following:

$dump["likes"] = 1234;
$likes["data"][$i]["name"] = "ABCDEFG";

for($i=0;$i<=$max;$i++){
    $data[$i]["likes"] = $dump["likes"];
    $data[$i]["name"] = $likes["data"][$i]["name"];

}

//Print sorted array here (highest value in "like" first)

I just need a way to find out in which entry the biggest “likes” are 🙂

So far i have tried array_multisort, but it showed me “inconsistent size” or some error…

Thanks for all your help!

EDIT:

When i print($data) outside of the end loop it looks like this:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [likes] => 3485109 [name] => Google ) [1] => Array ( [likes] => 78535 [name] => Youtube ) [2] => Array ( [likes] => 2433041 [name] => Bing ))

I would like to have an array like this:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [likes] => 3485109 [name] => Google ) [1] => Array ( [likes] => 2433041 [name] => Bing ) [2] => Array ( [likes] => 78535 [name] => Youtube ))

//Sorted by "likes"

Answer 1

This should do the trick

function cmp($a, $b){
  if ($a['likes']>$b['likes'])
     return 1;
  else if ($a['likes']<$b['likes'])
    return -1;
  else return 0;
}
usort($data, 'cmp');