aplhabetically ordered dropdown

[smilesmita]

I have this dropdown which pulls fields from the xml file and displays the names .

The list is not alphabetically sorted and I wanted to know how i could do that.

 

following is the code/Please help!

 

$sxml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($xmlfile));
$i = 0;
$options = '<option value="" selected>';
while (isset($sxml->specialty[$i])) {
$attribs = $sxml->specialty[$i]->attributes();
$options .= sprintf('<option value="%d">%s</option>', $attribs['tid'], $attribs['name']) . "\n";
$i++;
}


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[OkBoy]

Isn't that just the basic sort command? Something like:

 

$sxml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($xmlfile));

sort($sxml);

$i = 0;
$options = '<option value="" selected>';
while (isset($sxml->specialty[$i])) {
$attribs = $sxml->specialty[$i]->attributes();
$options .= sprintf('<option value="%d">%s</option>', $attribs['tid'], $attribs['name']) . "\n";
$i++;
}

 

Pretty sure by default sort goes alphabetically.

[smilesmita]

it dint work??i thought tht would work..may be because $sxml is not an array..

[dbillings]

maybe try exploding it?

 

$pizza  = "piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6";

$pieces = explode(" ", $pizza);

sort($pieces);

[smilesmita]

i was trying this..but its not working too:

 

  $sxml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($xmlfile));

  $i = 0;

  $options = '<option value="" selected>';

  while (isset($sxml->specialty[$i])) {

    $sxml_read = $sxml->specialty[$i]->attributes();

    $attribs[$sxml_read['tid']] = $sxml_read['name'];

    $i++;

  }

   

  asort($attribs);

   

  foreach($attribs as $key => $value) {

    $options .= sprintf('<option value="%d">%s</option>', $key, $value) . "\n";

  }

[The Little Guy]

Try this:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse-into-struct.php

 

Then sort it.