Sort an Array by keys based on another Array?

Question

Is it possible in PHP to do something like this? How would you go about writing a function? Here is an example. The order is the most important thing.

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Answer 1

Without magic...

$array=array(28=>c,4=>b,5=>a);
$seq=array(5,4,28);    
SortByKeyList($array,$seq) result: array(5=>a,4=>b,28=>c);

function sortByKeyList($array,$seq){
    $ret=array();
    if(empty($array) || empty($seq)) return false;
    foreach($seq as $key){$ret[$key]=$dataset[$key];}
    return $ret;
}