[SOLVED] sort() array function in ASC order?

[EchoFool]

Is there a way to get sort($array) to display values in DESC order rather than ASC order?

 

Because im trying to create a list of who is doing the best but the list is backwards ie the worst person is at the top which is wrong.... this is what i have:

 

<?php
// build array etc $states


sort($states);

foreach($states AS $StateID => $value){
$ID = $ID + 1; //avoid a query seeking ID 0
$Get = mysql_query("SELECT Name FROM mayor_state WHERE StateID='$StateID'")
Or die(mysql_error());
$row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Get);
?>
<tr>
    <td width="200" align="center"><?=$row2['Name']?></td>
    <td width="200" align="center"><?=number_format($value)?></td>
    </tr>
<?
}
?>
</table>

 

the result shows:

 

1

2

3

4

5

 

But im trying to get it to be :

 

5

4

3

2

1

 

Hope you can help.

[premiso]

rsort

 

That should do it.

 

EDIT:

Removed the other portion, it was irrelevant.

[EchoFool]

Hmm that sorts the value of the array but the first section... what i mean is:

 

[ 0 ] = 12

[1] = 15

with rsort it becomes:

 

[ 0 ] = 15

[1] = 12

 

 

basically i need the [ 0 ] and [1] to also sort with it if that makes sense?

 

so like:

 

[1] = 15

[ 0 ] =  0

 

How would i do that?

[premiso]

krsort

 

Look at the sorting functions at the php.net manual. You are bound to find it by looking....

[EchoFool]

I did but i couldn't find the one i needed.

 

ksort just sorts in order of key. But i need it to sort by value of the key but when it sorts the values... also keep their key with it so :

 

[ 0 ] = 4

[1] = 23

[2] = 1

 

Becomes:

[1] = 23

[ 0 ] = 4

[2] = 1

 

I tried:

 

asort()

arsort()

ksort()

sort()

natsort()

rsort()

 

 

None of them seemed to do it though.

[premiso]

Ah, now that makes sense lol.

 

I am sure there is a function to do this somewhere...but this might work.

 

<?php
function keepKeySort($array) {
       $array2 = $array;
       sort($array);
       foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
             $newKey = array_search($val, $array2); 
             $returnArray[$newKey] = $val;
       }
       return $returnArray;
}
?>

 

Not sure if that will work, but if not maybe you can tweak it to work.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Try arsort() again. It is the one you want. If it did not work, post what it did do and post an example of your data. If your data is strings that contain numbers, you need to use SORT_NUMERIC as the second parameter.

[flyhoney]

at the very least there is always array_reverse

[EchoFool]

Argh looks like arsort() does the job must of overlooked it when i used it !

 

Thanks guys.