cakephp-plugin arraysort

imsamurai/arraysort

CakePHP utility for sorting arrays by multiple fields

API Documentation

Check out ArraySort API Documentation, _(*1)

Abstract

, _(*2)

Installation

cd my_cake_app/app
git clone git://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-arraysort-utility.git Plugin/ArraySort

or if you use git add as submodule:, _(*3)

cd my_cake_app
git submodule add "git://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-arraysort-utility.git" "app/Plugin/ArraySort"

then add plugin loading in Config/bootstrap.php, _(*4)

CakePlugin::load('ArraySort');

Usage

In any place of your code:, _(*5)

App::uses('ArraySort', 'ArraySort.Utility');

$sorted_array = ArraySort::multisort($array, $params);

where $array is array to sort, $params can be string ('asc' or 'desc') or array like this:, _(*6)

$params = array(
        <field1> => <direction>,
        <field2> => <direction2>,
        ...
);

For example:, _(*7)

$params = array(
        'rank' => 'desc',
        'created' => 'asc'
);

With this $params method will sort $array by comparing each elements firstly by rank field, if they have equal rank then sort by created field., _(*8)