Question

I have this array:

array ('project'=>'My project','leader'=>'Michael Phepps','partner1'=>'John Campbell','partner2'=>'Phillip Prescott','agepartner1'=>25, 'agepartner2'=>'44', 'budget'=>'80000');

The array is the result of some queries in diferent tables:
project table fields: project, leader, budget.
partners fields: partner, age

The order of the array is defined by an user, and executed like this:

foreach ($userarray as $field) {loadField($field)};

As the operation is for each field I obtain ‘partner2’ after ‘partner1’ but I need to get ‘agepartner1’ after ‘partner1’, because them are displayed in a html table after that.

Any suggestions can I obtain:

array ('project'=>'My project','leader'=>'Michael Phepps','partner1'=>'John Campbell', 'agepartner1'=>25, 'partner2'=>'Phillip Prescott', 'agepartner2'=>'44', 'budget'=>'80000');

Answer 1

While perhaps not exactly the answer you’re looking for, I think there may be a better way to approach your situation:

$data = array('key1' => 'is', 'key2' => 'test', 'key3' => 'This');
$order = array('key3', 'key1', 'key2');

foreach($order as $key){
  print_r($data[$key]);
}

Output:

This is test.

So with your data:

$userarray = array ('project'=>'My project',
                    'leader'=>'Michael Phepps',
                    'partner1'=>'John Campbell',
                    'partner2'=>'Phillip Prescott',
                    'agepartner1'=>25, 
                    'agepartner2'=>'44', 
                    'budget'=>'80000');

$order = array('project',
               'leader',
               'partner1', 
               'agepartner1', 
               'partner2', 
               'agepartner2', 
               'budget');

foreach($order as $field) {
  loadField($userarray[$field]);
}