imsamurai/arraysort

CakePHP utility for sorting arrays by multiple fields

1.0.7 2014-09-18 10:51 UTC

Requires

• composer/installers: *

MIT

• Shamray Alexander

• plugin
• cakephp
• array
• sort

README

Check out ArraySort API Documentation

Abstract

Installation

cd my_cake_app/app
git clone git://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-arraysort-utility.git Plugin/ArraySort

or if you use git add as submodule:

cd my_cake_app
git submodule add "git://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-arraysort-utility.git" "app/Plugin/ArraySort"

then add plugin loading in Config/bootstrap.php

CakePlugin::load('ArraySort');

Usage

In any place of your code:

App::uses('ArraySort', 'ArraySort.Utility');

$sorted_array = ArraySort::multisort($array, $params);

where $array is array to sort, $params can be string ('asc' or 'desc') or array like this:

$params = array(
        <field1> => <direction>,
        <field2> => <direction2>,
        ...
);

For example:

$params = array(
        'rank' => 'desc',
        'created' => 'asc'
);

With this $params method will sort $array by comparing each elements firstly by rank field, if they have equal rank then sort by created field.