How do I sort a multidimensional array with stdClass Objects by values of a key?

Question

Yes, I have searched and tried many techniques, but nothing seems to work. Here is my array:

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id]         


        

Answer 1

You should use usort...

So you define a function that compares two objects (by the name field) and then run usort on the array, passing in the function as the second argument.

Something like this:

function cmp($a, $b)
{
    if ($a["name"] == $b["name"]) {
        return 0;
    }
    return ($a["name"] < $b["name"]) ? -1 : 1;
}

usort ($my_array, "cmp");
var_dump($my_array);

Hope that helps!

Ben