Question

Thanks to the many folks who help us out here on Stackoverflow. You all are awesome! Now to the question. I’ve got an array for the following values: “duck”, “chicken”,”egg”, “pork”, “steak”, “beef”, “fish”, “shrimp”, “deer”, and “lamb.”

I’ve gotten the list to display in Alphabetical order. This is a dynamic array, so it may not always have all these values or be in that order. I’d like to have “Steak” always appear first with “Top Choice” next to it, while keeping the rest in alphabetical order with “Available for Order” next to them.

Here’s what I’ve got thus far with $meat_items as the array:

foreach($meat_items as $meat_item)
     echo $meat_item . ' Available for Order <br>';

I should clarify: Steak may NOT always be a part of the array.

Answer 1

Since you always want steak to appear first, hard code it:

if (in_array("steak", $meat_items)) {
    `echo "Steak: Top Choice";`
}

Sort your array alphabetically:

sort($meat_items);

Then loop through your array, echoing all items except the steak:

foreach ($meat_items as $meat_item) {
    if ( "steak" != $meat_item ) {
        echo $meat_item . ' Available for Order<br />';
    }
}