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I have an associative array like this.

Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 1 [name] => Admin [email] => [email protected] [group] => Admin [href] => http://localhost/teradasys/index.php/users/user/user_info?&user_id=1 ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 2 [name] => rochellecanale [email] => [email protected] [group] => [href] => http://localhost/teradasys/index.php/users/user/user_info?&user_id=2 ) [2] => Array ( [id] => 3 [name] => symfony [email] => [email protected] [group] => [href] => http://localhost/teradasys/index.php/users/user/user_info?&user_id=3 ) [3] => Array ( [id] => 4 [name] => jolopeterson [email] => [email protected] [group] => [href] => http://localhost/teradasys/index.php/users/user/user_info?&user_id=4 ) [4] => Array ( [id] => 5 [name] => symfony123 [email] => [email protected] [group] => [href] => http://localhost/teradasys/index.php/users/user/user_info?&user_id=5 )

I want to sort by name how can I do it?

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uasort() function is what you're looking for.

uasort($data, function($a, $b) { return strcasecmp($a['name'], $b['name']); });

You should take a look on usort() and uksort() doc for examples of how user-defined comparison functions works.

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Thank you a lot, been looking for this for a long time!
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http://php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php

This is my go to page for sorting. If you want to have array keys preserved you would do something like:

uasort($myArray, function ($a, $b) { if ($a['name'] == $b['name']) return 0; return ($a['name'] < $b['name']) ? -1 : 1; });

Switch the comparison to change or ordering. If you are using this sort often you might want to extract it to its own function rather than use a closure. Personally, a sort closure is pretty short and I like to have it inline where I can see exactly what is going on without needing to jump to another bit of code.

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Try this 

$nameA = array(); foreach ($inventory as $key => $row) { $nameA[$key] = $row['name']; } array_multisort($nameA, SORT_ASC, $inventory);

Here

$inventory

is your main array

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Ok thanks. I didn't yet check the link you posted above. Ill try this.

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