Sort array of objects by object fields

Question

How can I sort this array of objects by one of its fields, like name or count ?

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Answer 1

Thanks for the inspirations, I also had to add an external $translator parameter

usort($listable_products, function($a, $b) {
    global $translator;
    return strcmp($a->getFullTitle($translator), $b->getFullTitle($translator));
});

Answer 2

This is what I have for a utility class

class Util
{
    public static function sortArrayByName(&$arrayToSort, $meta) {
        usort($arrayToSort, function($a, $b) use ($meta) {
            return strcmp($a[$meta], $b[$meta]);
        });
    }
}

Call it:

Util::sortArrayByName($array, "array_property_name");

Answer 3

usort($array, 'my_sort_function');

var_dump($array);

function my_sort_function($a, $b)
{
    return $a->name < $b->name;
}

The same code will be with the count field.

More details about usort: http://ru2.php.net/usort

Btw, where did you get that array from? I hope that not from database?

Answer 4

You can use usort, like this:

usort($array,function($first,$second){
    return strcmp($first->name, $second->name);
});

Answer 5

A simple alternative that allows you to determine dynamically the field on which the sorting is based:

$order_by = 'name';
usort($your_data, function ($a, $b) use ($order_by)
{
    return strcmp($a->{$order_by}, $b->{$order_by});
});

This is based on the Closure class, which allows anonymous functions. It is available since PHP 5.3.

Answer 6

If you need local based string comparison, you can use strcoll instead of strcmp.

Remeber to first use setlocale with LC_COLLATE to set locale information if needed.

  usort($your_data,function($a,$b){
    setlocale (LC_COLLATE, 'pl_PL.UTF-8'); // Example of Polish language collation
    return strcoll($a->name,$b->name);
  });