PHP associative array can be sorted using custom user compare function while maintaining index association using uasort. The function is passed two values and it should return these return values.
- -1 if value1 should appear before value2
- 0 if value1 = value2
- 1 if value1 should appear after value2
Here is example code where associative array contains employee id as key and age and city in value. This example will sort array by employee age.
<?php
// employee id, age, city data
$arr = array(
'101' => array(39, "Bangalore"),
'105' => array(29, "Delhi"),
'109' => array(35, "Delhi"),
);
uasort($arr, function($a, $b) {
if ($a[0] < $b[0]) {
return -1;
} else if ($a[0] == $b[0]) {
return 0;
} else {
return 1;
}
});
print_r($arr);
?>Array
(
[105] => Array
(
[0] => 29
[1] => Delhi
)
[109] => Array
(
[0] => 35
[1] => Delhi
)
[101] => Array
(
[0] => 39
[1] => Bangalore
)
)
Env: PHP 7.4.33 (Linux)
