Sort Array

[jandrews3]

I'm sure this is an easy operation, but I suck at manipulating arrays. I have an array $team[0] through $team[7] all filled with integers and I need to know which field contains the 3 highest values. I'm using this to determine which teams in my classroom came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Thanks.

[Pikachu2000]

rsort

[btherl]

Or arsort() if you need to know the index of the 3 highest values, rather then the 3 highest values themselves.

[jandrews3]

Yeah, I've found a bunch of possible functions for arrays, but my problem is that I'm totally inexperienced in using them. I suck at manipulating arrays. I'm not sure that sorting the array here is what I really need. What I need to do is find out which field, $team[0], $team[1], $team[2], $team[3], $team[4], $team[5], $team[6] or $team[7] has the highest value. Then I need to do the same to find out which has the second highest value, and then again for the third highest. Sorting may very well be what I need to do here, but I don't need the actual value ... I need to know which $team[] contains it. I can't figure out how to do this without a helluva lot of IF statements. I appreciate the help, but if rsort() or arsort() are possible solutions, I have no idea what the code would look like. Thanks.

[raptor30506090]

What about this would this help?

 

<?php 

$team0 = 1;
$team1 = 2;
$team2 = 3;
$teams = array(array('teamA' => $team0, 'teamB' => $team1, 'teamC' => $team2));
sort($teams);
while(list($key, $list) = each($teams)) {
							echo ' TeamA '.$list['teamA'] . ' TeamB '.$list['teamB'] . ' TeamC '.$list['teamC'] ;
}
?>

 

or am i on the wrong track

[raptor30506090]

Or you could loop it

<?php 

$team0 = 1;
$team1 = 2;
$team2 = 3;
$teams = array(array('TeamA' => $team0, 'TeamB' => $team1, 'TeamC' => $team2));
sort($teams);
foreach($teams as $team){
while(list($key, $list) = each($team)) {

                      echo 'Team Results: ' . ' ' .$key . ' Points:  ' .$list . '<br>';
}}

?>

[jandrews3]

I appreciate your help, but all either of those two scripts seemed to do was to display the data. I need to determine WHICH team had 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. That is to say, I need the script to determine that, so that extra credit points to my students can be automatically awarded.

[Barand]

If your array only contains the integer points values, how do you know which teams they belong to?

[jandrews3]

$team[0] is team 1, it's value is the points team 1 has earned. And so on.

[Barand]

try

 

<?php
$teams = array(50,45,20,35,80,55,25);

arsort($teams);

for ($pos=1; $pos <= 3; ++$pos) {
    list ($team, $pts) = each($teams);
    echo "Pos $pos: Team " . ++$team . " with $pts points<br />";
}
?>

[jandrews3]

@Barand - THANK YOU!!! That piece of code helped me to do exactly what I needed.