Question

<?php
$ranks = array(
"Alex 1"    =>" $team0",
"Alex 2"    => "$team1",
"Dave 1"    => "$team2",
"Dave 2"    => "$team3",
"Grant 1"   => "$team4",
"Grant 2"   => "$team5",
"Jason 1"   => "$team6",
"Jason 2"   => "$team7",
"Jessica 1" => "$team8",
"Jessica 2" => "$team9",
"Kevin 1"   => "$team10",
"Kevin 2"   => "$team11",
"Kris 1"    => "$team12",
"Kris 2"    => "$team13",
"Mark F 1" => "$team14",
"Mark F 2" => "$team15",
"Mark P 1" => "$team16",
"Mark P 2" => "$team17",
"Tim 1"     => "$team18",
"Tim 2"     => "$team19",
"Travis 1" => "$team20",
"Travis 2" => "$team21",
"Trevor 1" => "$team22",
"Trevor 2" => "$team23");
ksort($ranks);
foreach($ranks as $key => $val) {echo " ( $key ... $val\n pts ) ";}
?>

Instead of echoing all of the results, I want to echo the highest 5 results like into an html table row with each result in its own …

Answer 1

Here you go!

// Sort by value descending, while maintaining key association
uasort($ranks, function($a,$b) {
    return $a < $b ? -1 : ($a == $b ? 0 : 1);
});

// Get top 5 results
$top5 = array_slice($ranks, 0, 5);

// Display results in a table
echo "<table>";
foreach($top5 as $key => $val) {
    echo "<tr><td>$key</td><td>$val pts</td></tr>\n ";
}
echo "</table>";