Sorting arrays in Laravel following a specific parametre

Question

I have a variable which is an array of arrays

$janvier[]=array( 'type', 'date');

I want to sort it following the date so I used this code

$janvier=> $janvier->sortby($janvier['date'])

but it shows me this error:

call to a member function sortby() on array

Couldn't find what's wrong

I'm so used to low level languages this is my first time using a high level language

Piazzi · Answer 1 · 2019-03-02T20:54:31.473

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sortBy is a collection method from laravel, you can't use it on a array.

If you want to sort the array by the key data use this code:


$janvier = array_multisort(array_values($janvier), SORT_DESC, array_keys($janvier), SORT_ASC, $janvier);

Look at the array_multisort method for more info

edited Mar 02 '19 at 20:54

answered Mar 02 '19 at 18:21

Piazzi

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Thanks for taking time to help but this just made the content of the array to NULL – Lucky Mar 02 '19 at 19:52

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '19 at 18:54

You can create a custom function for this case:

array_sort_by_column($array, 'date');

function array_sort_by_column(&$array, $column, $direction = SORT_ASC) {
    $reference_array = array();

    foreach($array as $key => $row) {
        $reference_array[$key] = $row[$column];
    }

    array_multisort($reference_array, $direction, $array);
}

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Sorting arrays in Laravel following a specific parametre

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