Sorting using sort()..? But how with this..?

[oz11]

This is my code.. though it only sorts by occurrences atm.. how do i get it to sort by alphabetical order??

<?php

function most_frequent_words($string, $stop_words = [], $limit = 10000) {
    $string = strtolower($string); // Make string lowercase

    $words = str_word_count($string, 1); // Returns an array containing all the words found inside the string
    $words = array_diff($words, $stop_words); // Remove black-list words from the array
    $words = array_count_values($words); // Count the number of occurrence

    arsort($words); // Sort based on count

    return array_slice($words, 0, $limit); // Limit the number of words and returns the word array
}

$join_terms = "";
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("select terms from links");
$stmt->execute([]); 
while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
    //echo $row['terms']."<br />\n";
    $join_terms = " ".$join_terms . $row['terms']." ";
}
$dupl = implode(' ', array_unique(explode(' ', $join_terms)));
$dupl  = str_replace(",", "", $dupl);

$stop_words = array("");

 $frequent = most_frequent_words($dupl, $stop_words);
 //print_r($frequent);
?>
<small id="pop_terms">
<?php
if(is_array($frequent)){
    foreach($frequent as $k=>$value) { 
         $encode =  base64_encode($k);
         echo "<a href='../tags.php?q=". $encode."'>". $k."</a>, " ;  // $k is the key 

        if ($k === array_key_last($frequent)) {
             echo ".";
        }
    }
}
?>

I must have nabbed abit of code from somewhere a while ago . Just cant get my head around it. Helpz plz.

[Barand]

ksort($words) ?

[oz11]

Hey. I shortened the code.. 

<?php
$join_terms = "";
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("select terms from links");
$stmt->execute([]); 
while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
    //echo $row['terms']."<br />\n";
    $join_terms = " ".$join_terms . $row['terms']." ";
}
$frequent = implode(' ', array_unique(explode(' ', $join_terms)));
$frequent  = str_replace(",", "", $frequent);

print_r($frequent);
?>

Can I loop through the $frequent array and then finally sort?

[gizmola]

To understand the code, you should debug what the $words array looks like.  

The reason the code currently works to sort by occurrence, is because the array looks like this:

 

array (
  'red' => 7,
  'mailbox' => 2,
)

 

Barand gave you the answer, but you need to understand what the difference is between the two functions and when to use one vs the other.  

[oz11]

Turns out its not an array 

[oz11]

Hey. Thanks for the help.. here is my working code 4 anyone else..,.

 

<?php
$join_terms = "";
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("select terms from links");
$stmt->execute([]); 
while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
    $join_terms = " ".$join_terms . $row['terms'].", ";
}
$frequent = implode(' ', array_unique(explode(' ', $join_terms)));
$myArray = explode(',', $frequent);

sort($myArray);
print_r($myArray);

 

Edited January 8 by oz11

[Barand]

Assuming your data looks something like this table...

### CREATE SOME TEST DATA FIRST
$pdo->exec("CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE links (terms varchar(20))");
$pdo->exec("INSERT INTO links (terms) VALUES ('rhubarb'), ('dog'), ('ferret'), ('zucchini'), ('daffodil'), ('yeti'), ('misery'), ('ferret')");

then

$stmt = $pdo->query("SELECT DISTINCT terms 
                     FROM links
                     ORDER BY terms
                     ");
$results = array_column($stmt->fetchAll(), 'terms');
echo '<pre>' . print_r($results, 1) . '</pre>';

giving

Array
(
    [0] => daffodil
    [1] => dog
    [2] => ferret
    [3] => misery
    [4] => rhubarb
    [5] => yeti
    [6] => zucchini
)