Hello everyone,

 I am having a problem with an array I am working with. It has the form 

$Data[$counter][$datatype] = $value

What I need to do is be able to sort based on $value of a certain 
$datatype value.

For example if I did:
$Data[1][car] = "civic";
$Data[1][truck] = "ram";
$Data[2][car] = "accord";

And I want to sort the value of cars, how do u do this? I have found how 
to do it with a simpler array but nothing on how to do it under these 
circumstances. Any help that can be provided on this would be most helpful.

Sincerely
Mychael

As far as I can see it is not possible because of your prefix to cars [1] / [2]
You can swith your array build-up $Data[car][1], $Data[car][2], 
$Data[truck][1] etc then you have the numbers you can run through with for 
/ foreach / or while(list(...
Or you can store your data in a simple array $Data and use car1 car2 etc as 
key (same for truck) and than you can use asort() or arsort()

if you want to get al the cars you run through the query like

while (list ($key, $val) = each ($Data)) {
     echo "$key = $val\n";
}

m.t.h.

Carl 

>  I am having a problem with an array I am working with. It has the form
>
> $Data[$counter][$datatype] = $value
>
> What I need to do is be able to sort based on $value of a certain
> $datatype value.
>
> For example if I did:
> $Data[1][car] = "civic";
> $Data[1][truck] = "ram";
> $Data[2][car] = "accord";
>
> And I want to sort the value of cars, how do u do this? I have found how
> to do it with a simpler array but nothing on how to do it under these
> circumstances. Any help that can be provided on this would be most helpful.


The cleanest way to do this is to probably separate each grouping (cars and
trucks) and sort those.

I don't see any benefit to merging the two groups together, though.

$cars = array();
$trucks = array();

foreach($Data as $vehicle_array)
{
   foreach($vehicle_array as $type => $model)
   {
      if($type == "car")
      {
         $cars[] = $model;
      }
      else
      {
         $trucks[] = $model;
      }
   }
}

sort($cars);
sort($trucks);

reset($cars);
reset($trucks);


Take care,

Nik