Sorting arrays by date

Question

I\'ve got a question. I\'m building an array by getting data from mysql and merging three query results in one array.

I put data to array like this:

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Answer 1

What you're trying to do is sort a multidimensional array, you can find plenty on Google about this. A nice elegant solution would be something like:

// Sort the multidimensional array
usort($results, "custom_sort");

// Define the custom sort function
function custom_sort($a,$b) {
     return $a['some_sub_var']>$b['some_sub_var'];
}

EDIT 1:

For those in the comments doubting whether this code would work, please feel free to try it out (I even added in a date that's a duplicate for testing purposes):

function custom_sort($a,$b) {
        return $a['added']>$b['added'];
}

$arrayToSort = array(
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-17 07:33:53",
                        "type" => "1"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-13 06:36:22",
                        "type" => "1"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-09 04:01:12",
                        "type" => "2"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-02-08 02:08:32",
                        "type" => "2"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-25 00:09:08",
                        "type" => "2"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-13 06:36:22",
                        "type" => "1"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-13 06:36:22",
                        "type" => "1"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-23 00:09:08",
                        "type" => "3"
                    ),
                    array(
                        "added" => "2012-01-22 00:09:08",
                        "type" => "3"
                    )
                );
usort($arrayToSort, "custom_sort");

echo '
';
print_r($arrayToSort);
echo '
';

A good place to test quickly would be to go to http://writecodeonline.com/php/.