(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
uasort — Ordena un array con una función de comparación definida por el usuario y mantiene la asociación de índices
Esta función ordena un array tal que los índices de array mantienen sus correlaciones con los elementos del array con los que están asociados, usando una función de comparación definida por el usuario.
Se usa pricipalmente cuando se ordenan arrays asociativos donde el orden del elemento mismo es significante.
Nota:
Si dos miembros se comparan como iguales, su orden relativo en el array oredenado será indefinido.
Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo básico de uasort()
<?php
// Función de comparación
function cmp($a, $b) {
if ($a == $b) {
return 0;
}
return ($a < $b) ? -1 : 1;
}
// Array a ser ordenado
$array = array('a' => 4, 'b' => 8, 'c' => -1, 'd' => -9, 'e' => 2, 'f' => 5, 'g' => 3, 'h' => -4);
print_r($array);
// Ordenar e imprimir el array resultante
uasort($array, 'cmp');
print_r($array);
?>El resultado del ejemplo sería:
Array
(
[a] => 4
[b] => 8
[c] => -1
[d] => -9
[e] => 2
[f] => 5
[g] => 3
[h] => -4
)
Array
(
[d] => -9
[h] => -4
[c] => -1
[e] => 2
[g] => 3
[a] => 4
[f] => 5
[b] => 8
)
a quick reminder on the syntax if you want to use uasort in a Class or Object:
<?php
// procedural:
uasort($collection, 'my_sort_function');
// Object Oriented
uasort($collection, array($this, 'mySortMethod'));
// Objet Oriented with static method
uasort($collection, array('self', 'myStaticSortMethod'));
?>An Example using anonymous function.
Anonymous functions make some time the code easier to understand.
<?php
$fruits = array('Orange9','Orange11','Orange10','Orange6','Orange15');
uasort ( $fruits , function ($a, $b) {
return strnatcmp($a,$b); // or other function/code
}
);
print_r($fruits);
?>
returns
Array
(
[3] => Orange6
[0] => Orange9
[2] => Orange10
[1] => Orange11
[4] => Orange15
)Is it just me, or are the examples below misleading, and actually demonstrating situations that would be more appropriate for usort()?
After trying to make sense of the uasort() description, it sounds like it's more for sorting a 1D array like this:
"john" => "$23.12"
"tim" => "$6.50"
"bob" => "$18.54"
and getting back:
"tim" => "$6.50"
"bob" => "$18.54"
"john" => $23.12"
(assuming, of course, that your sort function is lopping off the $ and evaluating as a number -- which would complicate the use of asort() ;)Since php7.0 you can replace this boilerplate
if ($a == $b) {
return 0;
}
return ($a < $b) ? -1 : 1;
with the spaceship operator:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php#migration70.new-features.spaceship-op
return $a <=> $b;