usort

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usort — Ordena un array según sus valores usando una función de comparación definida por el usuario

Descripción

usort(array &$array, callable $value_compare_func): bool

Esta función ordenará un array según sus valores usando una función de comparación definida por el usuario. Si el array que se desea ordenar necesita ser ordenado por algún criterio no trivial, debería usar esta función.

Nota:
Si dos miembros se comparan como iguales, su orden relativo en el array oredenado será indefinido.

Nota: Esta función asigna nuevas clave a los elemenos del array. Eliminará cualquier clave existente que haya sido asignada, en lugar de reordenar las claves.

Parámetros

array: El array de entrada.
value_compare_func: La función de comparación debe devolver un entero menor, igual o mayor que cero si el primer argumento se considera que sea respectivamente menor, igual o mayor que el segundo. Observe que antes de PHP 7.0.0 este entero debía estar en el rango de -2147483648 a 2147483647.

callback(mixed $a, mixed $b): int

Precaución
La devolución de valores que no sean de tipo integer por parte de la función de comparación, como float, resultará en una conversión interna a integer del valor devuelto por la llamada de retorno. Así, valores como 0.99 y 0.1 serán convertidos al valor de tipo integer 0, lo cual hará que la comparación de tales valores sea igual.

Valores devueltos

Devuelve true en caso de éxito o false en caso de error.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo de usort()

<?php
function cmp($a, $b)
{
    if ($a == $b) {
        return 0;
    }
    return ($a < $b) ? -1 : 1;
}

$a = array(3, 2, 5, 6, 1);

usort($a, "cmp");

foreach ($a as $clave => $valor) {
    echo "$clave: $valor\n";
}
?>

El resultado del ejemplo sería:

0: 1
1: 2
2: 3
3: 5
4: 6

Nota:
Obviamente, en este caso tan trivial, la función sort() sería más apropiada.

Ejemplo #2 Ejemplo de usort() usando un array multidimensional

<?php
function cmp($a, $b)
{
    return strcmp($a["fruta"], $b["fruta"]);
}

$frutas[0]["fruta"] = "uvas";
$frutas[1]["fruta"] = "limones";
$frutas[2]["fruta"] = "manzanas";

usort($frutas, "cmp");

while (list($clave, $valor) = each($frutas)) {
    echo "\$frutas[$clave]: " . $valor["fruta"] . "\n";
}
?>

Cuando se ordena un array multidimensional, $a y $b contienen referencias al primer índice del array.

El resultado del ejemplo sería:

$frutas[0]: limones
$frutas[1]: manzanas
$frutas[2]: uvas

Ejemplo #3 Ejemplo de usort() usando una función miembro de un objeto

<?php
class ObjPrueba {
    var $nombre;

    function ObjPrueba($nombre)
    {
        $this->nombre = $nombre;
    }

    /* Ésta es la función de comparación estática: */
    static function cmp_obj($a, $b)
    {
        $al = strtolower($a->nombre);
        $bl = strtolower($b->nombre);
        if ($al == $bl) {
            return 0;
        }
        return ($al > $bl) ? +1 : -1;
    }
}

$a[] = new ObjPrueba("c");
$a[] = new ObjPrueba("b");
$a[] = new ObjPrueba("d");

usort($a, array("ObjPrueba", "cmp_obj"));

foreach ($a as $elemento) {
    echo $elemento->nombre . "\n";
}
?>

El resultado del ejemplo sería:

b
c
d

Ejemplo #4 Ejemplo de usort() usando un cierre para ordenar un array multidimensional

<?php
$array[0] = array('clave_a' => 'z', 'clave_b' => 'c');
$array[1] = array('clave_a' => 'x', 'clave_b' => 'b');
$array[2] = array('clave_a' => 'y', 'clave_b' => 'a');

function build_sorter($clave) {
    return function ($a, $b) use ($clave) {
        return strnatcmp($a[$clave], $b[$clave]);
    };
}

usort($array, build_sorter('clave_b'));

foreach ($array as $item) {
    echo $item['clave_a'] . ', ' . $item['clave_b'] . "\n";
}
?>

El resultado del ejemplo sería:

y, a
x, b
z, c

Ver también

uasort() - Ordena un array con una función de comparación definida por el usuario y mantiene la asociación de índices
comparación de funciones de orden de arrays

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User Contributed Notes 11 notes

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Hayley Watson ¶

11 years ago

As the documentation says, the comparison function needs to return an integer that is either "less than, equal to, or greater than zero". There is no requirement to restrict the value returned to -1, 0, 1.

<?php
usort($array, function($a, $b) {
    if($a->integer_property > $b->integer_property) {
        return 1;
    }
    elseif($a->integer_property < $b->integer_property) {
        return -1;
    }
    else {
        return 0;
    }
});
?>

can be simplified to

<?php
usort($array, function($a, $b) {
    return $a->integer_property - $b->integer_property;
});
?>

This of course applies to any comparison function that calculates an integer "score" for each of its arguments to decide which is "greater".

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luke dot semerau at gmail dot com ¶

15 years ago

If you need to use usort with a key in the calling method, I wrote this as a utility:
<?php

function usort_comparison($obj, $method, $key) {
    $usorter = &new Usort($obj, $method, $key);
    return array($usorter, "sort");
}

class Usort {
    function __construct($obj, $method, $key) {
        $this->obj = $obj;
        $this->method = $method;
        $this->key = $key;
    }
    function sort($a, $b) {
        return call_user_func_array(array($this->obj, $this->method), array($a, $b, $this->key));
    }
}

?>

<?php

require_once("util/usort.php");

class Foo {
    $items = array(FooBar(13), FooBar(2));
    public function sorter() {
        usort($this-items, usort_comparison("Foo", "_cmp", "item"));
    }

    public static function _cmp($a, $b, $key) {
         return strcasecmp($a->$key, $b->$key);
    }

}

class FooBar {
    public $item;
    function __construct($val) {
        $this->item = $val;
    }
}

?>

~ simple example... but in the way I need to use it was the key was used in a switch statement to choose the different member of the object to compare against dynamically (as in, sort by x or y or z)

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mkr at binarywerks dot dk ¶

22 years ago

If you want to sort an array according to another array acting as a priority list, you can use this function.



<?php

function listcmp($a, $b)

{

  global $order;



  foreach($order as $key => $value)

    {

      if($a==$value)

        {

          return 0;

          break;

        }



      if($b==$value)

        {

          return 1;

          break;

        }

    }

}



$order[0] = "first";

$order[1] = "second";

$order[2] = "third";



$array[0] = "second";

$array[1] = "first";

$array[2] = "third";

$array[3] = "fourth";

$array[4] = "second";

$array[5] = "first";

$array[6] = "second";



usort($array, "listcmp");



print_r($array);

?>

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derek at luddite dot net ¶

24 years ago

Needed a date sort and I didn't know if one was available so I wrote one. Maybe it'll help someone:



<?php

function DateSort($a,$b,$d="-") {

    if ($a == $b) {

        return 0;

    } else {  //Convert into dates and compare

        list($am,$ad,$ay)=split($d,$a);

        list($bm,$bd,$by)=split($d,$b);

        if (mktime(0,0,0,$am,$ad,$ay) < mktime(0,0,0,$bm,$bd,$by)) {

            return -1;

        } else {

            return 1;

        }

    }

}

?>



$d is the delimeter

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sydney at totoche dot org ¶

18 years ago

Instead of doing  :



<?php $strc = strcmp( strtolower($a[$f]), strtolower($b[$f]) ); ?>



you could do this : 



<?php $strc = strcasecmp( $a[$f], $b[$f] ); ?>



which is more efficient and is does case insensitive comparison according to the current locale.

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gus dot antoniassi at gmail dot com ¶

5 years ago

This is a simple way to sort based on a "priority list":

<?php

$order = [1,3,0,2];
$arr =   [
    [ 'id' => 0 ],
    [ 'id' => 1 ],
    [ 'id' => 2 ],
    [ 'id' => 3 ],
];

uasort(
    $arr, 
    function ($a, $b) use ($order) {
        return array_search($a['id'], $order) <=> array_search($b['id'], $order); 
    }
);

print_r($arr);

?>

This will return:

Array
(
    [1] => Array
        (
            [id] => 1
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [id] => 3
        )

    [0] => Array
        (
            [id] => 0
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [id] => 2
        )

)

Note that if you have a value in $arr that is not on the $order list, you will need additional checks since the array_search function returns FALSE for undefined indexes.

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inigo dot grimbergen at gmail dot com ¶

7 years ago

to sort with numeric and empty values  and have the smallest on top:
<?php
    usort($list, function($a, $b) {
        if( $a == null && $b != null ) return 1;
        if( $a != null && $b == null ) return -1;
        return $a > $b ? 1 : -1;
    });
?>
returns
1
2
3
null
null
null

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andi_mclean at ntlworld dot com ¶

12 years ago

I needed a sort method that would sort strings but take note of any numbers and would compare them as number. I also want to ignore any non alphanumerical characters.

Eg.
Slot 1 Example
Slot 10 Example
Slot 2 Example

Should infact be
Slot 1 Example
Slot 2 Example
Slot 10 Example

<?php
function sort_with_numbers($a , $b) {
    $a = explode(' ',$a);
    $b = explode(' ',$b);
    $size = min(count($a), count($b));
    for($index =0; $index < $size; ++$index) {
        $a1 = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "",$a[$index]);
        $b1 = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9]", "",$b[$index]);
        $equal = 0;
        if (is_numeric($a1) && is_numeric($b1)) {
            $equal = $a1 - $b1;
        } else {
            $equal = strcasecmp($a1,$b1);
        }
        if ($equal < 0) {
            return -1;
        }
        if ($equal > 0) {
            return 1;
        }
    }
    return count($a) - count($b);    
}
?>

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chris at candm dot org dot uk ¶

5 years ago

In case anyone is interested, comparative timings over 100000000 runs
Based on comparing integers (500 and 501)
Spaceship:4
()?: operator:10
Subtraction:2

Based on comparing floats (500.1 and 501.3) (caveats noted)
Spaceship:5
()?: operator:9
Subtraction:3

Based on comparing strings ("five" and "four")
Spaceship:7
()?: operator:17
(Subtraction obviously not available)

Note: a dummy run was done with an empty loop and the elapsed time for this was subtracted from each of the above times so that they reflect ONLY the time to do the comparisons. As for significance. unless you are doing very large numbers of comparisons where spaceships are the order of the day, the difference is insignificant.

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bo at erichsen dot com ¶

23 years ago

when using usort to refer to a function inside a class i have succesfully used:



<?php usort($myarray,array($this,"cmp")); ?>

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rh at 20i dot com ¶

4 months ago

A sort function to sort elements by a reference order.

function sort_by_reference(array $array_to_sort, array $reference_array): array {
    usort($array_to_sort, function($a, $b) use ($reference_array) {
        $pos_a = array_search($a, $reference_array);
        $pos_b = array_search($b, $reference_array);
        return $pos_a - $pos_b;
    });

    return $array_to_sort;
}

// Example usage
$reference_array = ["one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten"];
$array_to_sort = ["three", "one", "seven", "four", "ten"];

$sorted_array = sort_by_reference($array_to_sort, $reference_array);

// Print the result to verify the sorting
print_r($sorted_array);

```
Array
(
    [0] => one
    [1] => three
    [2] => four
    [3] => seven
    [4] => ten
)
```

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