xmanofsteel69 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Hey all! I've got this large problem with sorting an array that I've created. I've already put a LOT of title into this array, so I don't really want to do it all over again. It's actually a list of movies that I own and I'm trying to sort them in Alphabetical order...BUT...without sorting it with the "A", "An", or "The"s attached to it...I'm not sure if that makes sense, but I do hope so. This is what my array looks like in a txt file. Movie[1][Title]=The Da Vinci Code&Movie[1][Genre]=Drama / Mystery / Thriller&Movie[2][Title]=Mr. and Mrs. Smith&Movie[2][Genre]=Action / Comedy / Romance / Thriller&Movie[3][Title]=X-Men: The Last Stand&Movie[3][Genre]=Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller&Movie[4][Title]=The Covenant&Movie[4][Genre]=Action / Horror / Thriller&Movie[5][Title]=Serenity&Movie[5][Genre]=Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller And so on and so forth. I figured I would need to use preg_replace or ereg_replace as well as a sort, but I've been tryng and the best I can do is it sorting by the key, or the number value, which I don't want. Any help would be awesome! Hoep to hear a response soon! Thank you! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37404-solved-sorting-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
btherl Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 It makes perfect sense One way to solve it is to use usort(), and have your comparison function string off A, An and The before comparing. Another way is to add another value into your array which is the "normalized" name, with A, An and The stripped off. Then you can just sort by that normalized array element. The preg_replace() can go inside the comparison function with option 1 .. with option 2, you'll need to preg_replace() all of your data before the sorting. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37404-solved-sorting-problem/#findComment-178817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmanofsteel69 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 It doesn't seem to work, unless I'm doing it all wrong. usort(preg_replace('^(A|An|The) ', '', $Movie)); That is what I wrote down. I did that, and also the ereg_replace, and they both come back giving me an error. Warning: Wrong parameter count for usort() in E:\Tyson\wamp\www\jedit\Test1\Movies.php on line 58 The $Movie is set up like so. $Movie[$na][Title] = $_POST['movie']; $Movie[$na][Genre] = $_POST['genre']; When I do just a sort(), it sorts the title, but I can't seem to get rid of the "A", "An" or "The" within any of them. This is my entire code. <div style='display:none;'> <html> <head> <title>The Movie List</title> </head> <body bgcolor = black> </div> <center> <form action="Movies.php" method="post"> <table border="0" bgcolor=black cellspacing="5"> <tr><td><font color=red>Movie</font></td><td><input type="text" size="60" name="movie"></td></tr> <tr><td><font color=red>Genre</font></td><td><input type="text" size="60" name="genre"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td><input type="submit" value="Send"><font face="arial" size="1"> Click Send To Continue</font></td></tr> </table> </form> <?php require_once 'http_build_query.php'; $Movie = file_get_contents('Movies.txt'); parse_str($Movie); $na = count($Movie); $na = $na + 1; if ($_POST['movie'] != '') { $Movie[$na][Title] = $_POST['movie']; $Movie[$na][Genre] = $_POST['genre']; $Movie[$na][Title] = $Movie[$na][Title]; foreach($Movie as $key=>$val) { $Movie[$key][Title] = str_replace("\\","",$Movie[$key][Title]); } $temp[Movie] = $Movie; $data1 = http_build_query($temp); $data = urldecode($data1); $file = fopen('Movies.txt', 'wb'); fwrite($file, $data); fclose($file); } usort(preg_replace('(A|An|The) ', '', $Movie)); foreach($Movie as $key => $val) { $Movie[$key][Title] = str_replace(" I:",":",$Movie[$key][Title]); echo '<font color=yellow>'.$Movie[$key][Title].'</font><font color = red> - </font>'; echo '<font color=blue>'.$Movie[$key][Genre].'</font><br>'; } ?> Any help with this sort would be amazing! Thank you! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37404-solved-sorting-problem/#findComment-178874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
btherl Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Try this function title_cmp($a, $b) { $a_cmp = preg_replace('/^(A|An|The) /', '', $a['Title']); $b_cmp = preg_replace('/^(A|An|The) /', '', $b['Title']); return strcmp($a_cmp, $b_cmp); } usort($Movie, 'title_cmp'); Once you get how comparison functions work in usort(), you'll see they are very powerful Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37404-solved-sorting-problem/#findComment-178973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmanofsteel69 Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Thank you so much! I tried something very similar to that, but it always just assorted by keys...most likely because I didn't use $a['Title'] and just $a. But thank you very much for your help! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/37404-solved-sorting-problem/#findComment-179034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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