php sort using associative array

Posts: 9 · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:16 am

Hi,
I'm using krsort, ksort, arsort and asort in a script. Fine all goes perfectly, except that the sort field is based on file names from the directory contents, and they are (historically) ugly, as in MMDDYY, not YYYYMMDD, causing the different years to be interspersed together.

Code:

if($_GET['sort'] == 'alpha'){
if($_GET['mode'] == 'desc'){
krsort($files);
$highlight = 'alpha_desc';
} else {
ksort($files);
$highlight = 'alpha_asc';
}
} else {
if($_GET['mode'] == 'asc'){
asort($files, SORT_NUMERIC);
$highlight = 'date_asc';
} else {
arsort($files, SORT_NUMERIC);
$highlight = 'date_desc';
}
}

Posts: 192 · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:06 pm

Perhaps it's time to correct the poor naming convention? You could write a PHP script to move the directories such that they have proper names. That way you won't have to code something to compensate for something that you know isn't the best implementation.