<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >sort</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Array - funcþii" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="sizeof" HREF="function.sizeof.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="uasort" HREF="function.uasort.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.sizeof.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.uasort.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.sort" ></A >sort</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN7864" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >sort -- Sort an array</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN7867" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >void <B CLASS="methodname" >sort</B > ( array array [, int sort_flags])<BR ></BR ><P > This function sorts an array. Elements will be arranged from lowest to highest when this function has completed. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN7879" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. <B CLASS="function" >sort()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$fruits </font><font color="#007700">= array (</font><font color="#DD0000">"lemon"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"orange"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"banana"</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"apple"</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">sort </font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$fruits</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">reset </font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$fruits</font><font color="#007700">);<br />while (list (</font><font color="#0000BB">$key</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">$val</font><font color="#007700">) = </font><font color="#0000BB">each </font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$fruits</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"fruits["</font><font color="#007700">.</font><font color="#0000BB">$key</font><font color="#007700">.</font><font color="#DD0000">"] = "</font><font color="#007700">.</font><font color="#0000BB">$val</font><font color="#007700">.</font><font color="#DD0000">"\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > This example would display: </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >fruits[0] = apple fruits[1] = banana fruits[2] = lemon fruits[3] = orange</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > The fruits have been sorted in alphabetical order. </P ><P > The optional second parameter <VAR CLASS="parameter" >sort_flags</VAR > may be used to modify the sorting behavior using these values: </P ><P > Sorting type flags: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >SORT_REGULAR - compare items normally</P ></LI ><LI ><P >SORT_NUMERIC - compare items numerically</P ></LI ><LI ><P >SORT_STRING - compare items as strings</P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.arsort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >arsort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.asort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >asort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.ksort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ksort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.natsort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >natsort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.natcasesort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >natcasesort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.rsort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >rsort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.usort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >usort()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.array-multisort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >array_multisort()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.uksort.html" ><B CLASS="function" >uksort()</B ></A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B > The second parameter was added in PHP 4. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.sizeof.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.uasort.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >sizeof</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >uasort</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >