Question

I have an array of data which contains associative array rows and I would like to sort them by price,date etc. This cannot be done via SQL as these values are not in a database – I simply have a large array with the following example data:

$data[0] = array(
                 'id' => '2',
                 'price' => '400.00',
                 'date' => '2012-05-21',
                 ),
$data[1] = array(
                 'id' => '4',
                 'price' => '660.00',
                 'date' => '2012-02-21',
                 ),
$data[2] = array(
                 'id' => '8',
                 'price' => '690.00',
                 'date' => '2012-01-21',
                 )

etc………………

How can I sort this variable based on a select box such as sort by price ASC/DESC and date ASC/DESC

Sorry if this is simple – I am just so used to doing it via SQL that my mind has gone blank in this case.

Answer 1

I think you may modify this function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php#104464