Question

I’ve a little PHP script that get results from my database. In the mysql_fetch_array() I count files on the server in a folder. I get the folder name of the MySQL results.

What I want is to build a list with all companynames and a total of all the files from the associated folder.

Well, so far so good. But the problem is I want to sort the list on the total of files.

My script look like this:

<? $query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = '".$_COOKIE['users_id']."'"; $sql = mysql_query("$query");
while ($fill = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { 
   $multi_user = $fill['multi_user'];
   $folder = $fill['folder'];
   $company_name = $fill['company_name'];

   $directory_purchase = '/var/www/vhosts/domain.nl/private/'.$folder.'/purchase/';
   $directory_sales = '/var/www/vhosts/domain.nl/private/'.$folder.'/sales/';
   $email_folder = '/var/www/vhosts/domain.nl/private/'.$folder.'/email/';
   $kas_folder = '/var/www/vhosts/domain.nl/private/'.$folder.'/bank/';
   $multi_folder = '/var/www/vhosts/domain.nl/private/'.$folder.'/multi/';

   $total_purchase = count(glob($directory_purchase."*.*"));
   $total_sales = count(glob($directory_sales."*.*"));
   $total_email = count(glob($email_folder."*.*"));
   $total_kas = count(glob($kas_folder."*.*"));
   $total_multi = count(glob($multi_folder."*.*"));

   $total = $total_purchase + $total_sales + $total_email + $total_kas + $total_multi;

   echo '<table>
     <tr>
         <td>'. $company_name. '</td>
         <td>'. $total .'</td>
     </tr>
   </table>';
}?>

Somebody know how to do this?

Answer 1

Well…just create an array and fill it during the loop. Then sort the array and loop again. Additionally you need to cache the company names:

<?
$totals = array();
$companies = array();
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = '".$_COOKIE['users_id']."'";
$sql = mysql_query("$query");
while ($fill = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { 
   // all the other stuff

   $total = $total_purchase + $total_sales + $total_email + $total_kas + $total_multi;
   $totals[$fill['id']] = $total;
   $companies[$fill['id']] = $fill['company_name']; 
}
asort($totals);
foreach ($totals as $company => $total) {
    echo $companies[$company] . ': ' . $total . '<br />';
}
?>

Obviously you also could put all information into one single array and use usort(), but in my opionion that’s a little overkill.