There's no need to include your own API code to natsort an associative array by key. PHP's in-built functions (other than natsort) can do the job just fine:
<?php
uksort($myArray, "strnatcmp");
?>
natsort
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
natsort — Ordina un array usando un algoritmo di "ordine naturale"
Descrizione
Questa funzione implementa un algoritmo di ordinamento che ordina le stringhe alfanumeriche come lo farebbe un essere umano, mantenendo l'associazione chiavi/valori. Questo è chiamato "ordine naturale". Un esempio della differenza tra questo algoritmo e quello normalmente usato dai computer (usato in sort()) è dato qui sotto:
Example #1 esempio di natsort()
<?php
$array1 = $array2 = array("img12.png", "img10.png", "img2.png", "img1.png");
sort($array1);
echo "Ordinamento standard\n";
print_r($array1);
natsort($array2);
echo "\nOrdinamento naturale\n";
print_r($array2);
?>Questo codice genererà il seguente risultato:
Ordinamento standard
Array
(
[0] => img1.png
[1] => img10.png
[2] => img12.png
[3] => img2.png
)
Ordinamento naturale
Array
(
[3] => img1.png
[2] => img2.png
[1] => img10.png
[0] => img12.png
)
Per ulteriori informazioni vedere la pagina di Martin Pool » Natural Order String Comparison .
Vedere anche natcasesort(), strnatcmp() e strnatcasecmp().
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User Contributed Notes 19 notes
wyvern at greywyvern dot com ¶
16 years ago
Johan GENNESSON (php at genjo dot fr) ¶
14 years ago
Be careful of the new behaviour in 5.2.10 version.
See the following sample:
<?php
$array = array('1 bis', '10 ter', '0 PHP', '0', '01', '01 Ver', '0 ', '1 ', '1');
natsort($array);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($array);
echo '</pre>';
?>
5.2.6-1 will output:
Array
(
[3] => 0
[6] => 0
[2] => 0 OP
[4] => 01
[5] => 01 Ver
[8] => 1
[7] => 1
[0] => 1 bis
[1] => 10 ter
)
5.2.10 will output:
Array
(
[6] => 0
[3] => 0
[8] => 1
[4] => 01
[7] => 1
[5] => 01 Ver
[0] => 1 bis
[1] => 10 ter
[2] => 0 OP
)
Greetings
flash at minet dot net ¶
21 years ago
About the reverse natsort.. Maybe simpler to do :
function strrnatcmp ($a, $b) {
return strnatcmp ($b, $a);
}
xlab AT adaptiveNOSPAMarts DOT net ¶
20 years ago
Under limited testing, natsort() appears to work well for IP addresses. For my needs, it is far less code than the ip2long()/long2ip() conversion I was using before.
rasmus at flajm dot com ¶
21 years ago
To make a reverse function, you can simply:
function rnatsort(&$a){
natsort($a);
$a = array_reverse($a, true);
}
mbirth at webwriters dot de ¶
20 years ago
For those who want to natsort a 2d-array on the first element of each sub-array, the following few lines should do the job.
<?php
function natsort2d(&$aryInput) {
$aryTemp = $aryOut = array();
foreach ($aryInput as $key=>$value) {
reset($value);
$aryTemp[$key]=current($value);
}
natsort($aryTemp);
foreach ($aryTemp as $key=>$value) {
$aryOut[] = $aryInput[$key];
}
$aryInput = $aryOut;
}
?>
anonymous at coward dot net ¶
21 years ago
Reverse Natsort:
function rnatsort($a, $b) {
return -1 * strnatcmp($a, $b);
}
usort($arr, "rnatsort");
ale152 ¶
15 years ago
Note: negatives number.
<?php
$a = array(-5,-2,3,9);
natsort($a);
print_r($a);
?>
Will output:
Array ( [1] => -2 [0] => -5 [2] => 3 [3] => 9 )
natcasesort.too ¶
19 years ago
I got caught out through naive use of this feature - attempting to sort a list of image filenames from a digital camera, where the filenames are leading zero padded (e.g. DSCF0120.jpg) , will not sort correctly.
Maybe the example could be modified to exhibit this behaviour
(e.g. set array to -img0120.jpg','IMG0.png', 'img0012.png', 'img10.png', 'img2.png', 'img1.png', 'IMG3.png)
If the example hadn't used images I would have coded it correctly first time around!
phpnet at moritz-abraham dot de ¶
20 years ago
additional to the code posted by justin at redwiredesign dot com (which I found very usefull) here is a function that sorts complex arrays like this:
<?
$array['test0'] = array('main' => 'a', 'sub' => 'a');
$array['test2'] = array('main' => 'a', 'sub' => 'b');
$array['test3'] = array('main' => 'b', 'sub' => 'c');
$array['test1'] = array('main' => 'a', 'sub' => 'c');
$array['test4'] = array('main' => 'b', 'sub' => 'a');
$array['test5'] = array('main' => 'b', 'sub' => 'b');
?>
or
<?
$array[0] = array('main' => 1, 'sub' => 1);
$array[2] = array('main' => 1, 'sub' => 2);
$array[3] = array('main' => 2, 'sub' => 3);
$array[1] = array('main' => 1, 'sub' => 3);
$array[4] = array('main' => 2, 'sub' => 1);
$array[5] = array('main' => 2, 'sub' => 2);
?>
on one or more columns.
the code
<? $array = array_natsort_list($array,'main','sub'); ?>
will result in $array being sortet like this:
test0,test2,test1,test4,test5,test3
or
0,2,1,4,5,3.
you may even submit more values to the function as it uses a variable parameter list. the function starts sorting on the last and the goes on until the first sorting column is reached.
to me it was very usefull for sorting a menu having submenus and even sub-submenus.
i hope it might help you too.
here is the function:
<?
function array_natsort_list($array) {
// for all arguments without the first starting at end of list
for ($i=func_num_args();$i>1;$i--) {
// get column to sort by
$sort_by = func_get_arg($i-1);
// clear arrays
$new_array = array();
$temporary_array = array();
// walk through original array
foreach($array as $original_key => $original_value) {
// and save only values
$temporary_array[] = $original_value[$sort_by];
}
// sort array on values
natsort($temporary_array);
// delete double values
$temporary_array = array_unique($temporary_array);
// walk through temporary array
foreach($temporary_array as $temporary_value) {
// walk through original array
foreach($array as $original_key => $original_value) {
// and search for entries having the right value
if($temporary_value == $original_value[$sort_by]) {
// save in new array
$new_array[$original_key] = $original_value;
}
}
}
// update original array
$array = $new_array;
}
return $array;
}
?>
bb7b5b9 at gmail dot com ¶
8 years ago
This made me waste a lot of my precious youth ... natsort() is buggy if all numbers don't have the same number of decimal places.
(php 5.6.4-4ubuntu6.2)
<?php
$different_decimal_places_in_values = array('D'=>'13.59', '14.6' => '14.6', 'C-' => '14.19');
natsort($a);
var_dump($a);
/*echoes
array(3) {
'D' =>
string(5) "13.59"
'14.6' =>
string(4) "14.6" <----------- badly ordered
'C-' =>
string(5) "14.19"
}*/
?>
While this
<?php
$same_num_decimal_places_in_values = array('D'=>'13.59', '14.6' => '14.60', 'C-' => '14.19'); natsort($a); var_dump($a);
/*echoes
array(3) {
'D' =>
string(5) "13.59"
'C-' =>
string(5) "14.19"
'14.6' =>
string(5) "14.60" <--------- that is the correct position
}
*/
?>
lacent at gmail dot com ¶
17 years ago
there is another rnatsort function lower on the page, but it didn't work in the context i needed it in.
reasoning for this:
sorting naturally via the keys of an array, but needing to reverse the order.
function rnatsort ( &$array = array() )
{
$keys = array_keys($array);
natsort($keys);
$total = count($keys) - 1;
$temp1 = array();
$temp2 = array();
// assigning original keys to an array with a backwards set of keys, to use in krsort();
foreach ( $keys as $key )
{
$temp1[$total] = $key;
--$total;
}
ksort($temp1);
// setting the new array, with the order from the krsort() and the values of original array.
foreach ( $temp1 as $key )
{
$temp2[$key] = $array[$key];
}
$array = $temp2;
}
h3 ¶
18 years ago
This function can be very usefull, but in some cases, like if you want to sort a MySQL query result, it's important to keep in mind that MySQL as built'in sorting functions which are way faster than resorting the result using a complex php algorythm, especially with large arrays.
ex; 'SELECT * FROM `table` ORDER BY columnName ASC, columnName2 DESC'
Malek Mohamed ¶
6 years ago
$array1 = $array2 = array('IMG0.png', 'img12.png', 'img10.png', 'img2.png', 'img1.png', 'IMG3.png');
natsort($array1);
echo "\n natsort(); \n";
print_r($array1);
sort($array2, SORT_NATURAL);
echo "\n sort() with SORT_NATURAL Option\n";
print_r($array2);
Ouput:
natsort();
Array
(
[0] => IMG0.png
[5] => IMG3.png
[4] => img1.png
[3] => img2.png
[2] => img10.png
[1] => img12.png
)
sort() with SORT_NATURAL Option
Array
(
[0] => IMG0.png
[1] => IMG3.png
[2] => img1.png
[3] => img2.png
[4] => img10.png
[5] => img12.png
)
as we can see it's the same values but not the same keys, and also it's same for sort($array1, SORT_NATURAL | SORT_FLAG_CASE); and natcasesort($array2)
dotancohen splat gmail spot com ¶
7 years ago
As noted in other notes, natsort() does _not_ always return the expected sort order. It seems especially buggy when decimals or 0 padding is used. I've filed this bug report on the issue:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74672
mvs dot php at gmail dot com ¶
9 years ago
To naturally sort by array key, the uksort function can be used.
<?php
echo "Sort by keys\n";
$smoothie = array('orange' => 1, 'apple' => 1, 'yogurt' => 4, 'banana' => 4);
print_r($smoothie);
uksort( $smoothie, 'strnatcmp');
print_r($smoothie)
?>
Output:
Sort by keys
Array
(
[orange] => 1
[apple] => 1
[yogurt] => 4
[banana] => 4
)
Array
(
[apple] => 1
[banana] => 4
[orange] => 1
[yogurt] => 4
)
See http://php.net/manual/en/function.uksort.php for more information about uksort and http://php.net/strnatcmp for usage of strnatcmp.
@gmail bereikme ¶
18 years ago
Here's a handy function to sort an array on 1 or more columns using natural sort:
<?php
// Example: $records = columnSort($records, array('name', 'asc', 'addres', 'desc', 'city', 'asc'));
$globalMultisortVar = array();
function columnSort($recs, $cols) {
global $globalMultisortVar;
$globalMultisortVar = $cols;
usort($recs, 'multiStrnatcmp');
return($recs);
}
function multiStrnatcmp($a, $b) {
global $globalMultisortVar;
$cols = $globalMultisortVar;
$i = 0;
$result = 0;
while ($result == 0 && $i < count($cols)) {
$result = ($cols[$i + 1] == 'desc' ? strnatcmp($b[$cols[$i]], $a[$cols[$i]]) : $result = strnatcmp($a[$cols[$i]], $b[$cols[$i]]));
$i+=2;
}
return $result;
}
?>
Greetings,
- John
lil at thedreamersmaze dot spam-me-not dot org ¶
18 years ago
There's one little thing missing in this useful bit of code posted by mbirth at webwriters dot de:
<?php
function natsort2d(&$aryInput) {
$aryTemp = $aryOut = array();
foreach ($aryInput as $key=>$value) {
reset($value);
$aryTemp[$key]=current($value);
}
natsort($aryTemp);
foreach ($aryTemp as $key=>$value) {
$aryOut[$key] = $aryInput[$key];
// --------^^^^ add this if you want your keys preserved!
}
$aryInput = $aryOut;
}
?>
