Sort Teams By Record and Tie Breakers

[Mateobus]

Ok I have teams in arrays and i want to sort them to make a leaderboard.  Here are the array values:

$team['index'] //starting with 1
$team['name']
$team['conference_points']
$team['goal_differential']
$team['goals_for']
$team['goals_against']
$team['name']

The rules for rankings are as follows.  Team with most points is first. If points are the same, the tiebreaker is whoever has the greatest goal differential. If goal diff is the same, its team with the most goals for. How could I do this with PHP?  Thanks for all the help.

[ToonMariner]

array_multi_sort(
$team['conference_points'],SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC,
$team['goal_differential'],SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC,
$team['goals_for'],SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_DESC,
$team['goals_against'],SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_ASC,
$team['name'],SORT_STRING, SORT_ASC,
$team['index'],SORT_NUMERIC, SORT_ASC
);

I include all teh fields in this multisort as I have tried in the past to just sort on the sub-arrays required but then indices got lost......

[Mateobus]

Now I have confused myself.  Should it really be like
$team1['index'] //starting with 1
$team1['name']
$team1['conference_points']
$team1['goal_differential']
$team1['goals_for']
$team1['goals_against']
$team1['name']

$team2['index'] //starting with 1
$team2['name']
$team2['conference_points']
$team2['goal_differential']
$team2['goals_for']
$team2['goals_against']
$team2['name']
.
.
.
Or should i use matrices:
$team['index']['name'] //starting with 1
$team['index']['conference_points']
$team['index']['goal_differential']
$team['index']['goals_for']
$team['index']['goals_against']
$team['index']['name']

Which of these should i do.  I am leaning towards the latter, but how would i print them in a table with echo statements using your array_multi_sort... Thanks again ahead of time

[ToonMariner]

no what you had initiall is fine... and the multisort will work fine on that
to put it all in a table....

[code]
<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
  <th>Team</th>
  <th>GF</th>
  <th>GA</th>
  <th>GD</th>
  <th>Points</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
$i = 0;
$stop = count($team['index']);
while ($i < $stop)
{
?>
  <tr>
  <td><?php echo $team['name'][$i]; ?></td>
  <td><?php echo $team['goals_for'][$i]; ?></td>
  <td><?php echo $team['goals_against'][$i]; ?></td>
  <td><?php echo $team['goal_difference'][$i]; ?></td>
  <td><?php echo $team['conference_points'][$i]; ?></td>
  </tr>
<?php
$i++;
}

?>
</tbody>
</table>

[/code]

[Mateobus]

Now i got a call to undefined function array_mult_sort error.  Is it my version of php or something?

[ToonMariner]

no its my bad...

array_multisort

[Mateobus]

Ok, here is the problem, how do i initially put all of the values into arrays, if i don't have a second index array.  For example

for ($i=1; $i<7; $i++){
$team['wins'] = team wins value

}
i will keep overwritng the team wins amount.  these should be different for different teams.  i need to use matrices to store the index value dont i?

[ToonMariner]

yes you do.