PHP sort array

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In this tutorial I will show you how to sort a PHP array easy and fast. You will learn the most important PHP built in array sorting functions.

Step 1 - Introduction

PHP sort array

From time to time you want to sort arrays. You maybe want to do it alphabetically or numerically, ascending or descending order. To do this PHP provide some usefull functions. In the next section I will show you how to use them. First of all we need a small example array to work with:

Code: 
$colorList = array("apple"=>"red",
                   "grass"=>"green",
                   "sky"=>"blue",
                   "night"=>"black",
                   "wall"=>"white");
 
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Now if you display the array you will see the elements in the same order as they were defined. (If you don't know how to print an array then you can visit our PHP print array tutorial.) So if you use the following code to display the unsorted array elements:

Code: 
foreach ($colorList as $key => $value) {
   echo $key.' - '.$value.'<br/>';
}
 
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then your output will look like this:

Output: 
apple - red
grass - green
sky - blue
night - black
wall - white

So the next step is to sort this array.

Next Step of PHP sort array

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PHP sort array - Table of contents
Step 1 - Introduction
Step 2 - Basic sort array functions
Step 3 - Sorting associative arrays
Step 4 - Sort array by key

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PHP sort array

Step 1 - Introduction