PHP Sort a multidimensional array by element containing date

Question

I have an array such as:

Array
(
[0] => Array
    (
        [id] => 2
        [type] => comment
        [text] => hey
        [datetime] => 20         


        

Answer 1

I came across to this post but I wanted to sort by time when returning the items inside my class and I got an error.

So I research the php.net website and end up doing this:

class MyClass {
   public function getItems(){
      usort( $this->items, array("MyClass", "sortByTime") );
      return $this->items;
   }
   public function sortByTime($a, $b){
      return $b["time"] - $a["time"];
   }
}

You can find very useful examples in the PHP.net website

My array looked like this:

  'recent' => 
    array
      92 => 
        array
          'id' => string '92' (length=2)
          'quantity' => string '1' (length=1)
          'time' => string '1396514041' (length=10)
      52 => 
        array
          'id' => string '52' (length=2)
          'quantity' => string '8' (length=1)
          'time' => string '1396514838' (length=10)
      22 => 
        array
          'id' => string '22' (length=2)
          'quantity' => string '1' (length=1)
          'time' => string '1396514871' (length=10)
      81 => 
        array
          'id' => string '81' (length=2)
          'quantity' => string '2' (length=1)
          'time' => string '1396514988' (length=10)