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how to sort an array containing date values it should sort considering date,monthand year?

how to sort an array containing date values it should sort considering date,monthand year?

Apr 25th, 2007 04:33
Mihir Darji, deepu prasad, PHP Manual Array and Date Functions

Use Following function:


function sortDateArray($arrDate)
	{
		// Intialize internal arrays
		$arrReturnDate=array();
		$arrReturnDate_array();
		// loop thro to make timestamps
		for($i=0;$i<count($arrDate);$i++)
		{
			$arrReturnDate[$i] = strtotime($arrDate[$i]);
			 
		}
		// sort timestamps NUMERIC way
		sort($arrReturnDate,SORT_NUMERIC );
		// rebuild date array
		for($i=0;$i<count($arrReturnDate);$i++)
		{
			$arrReturnDate_[$i] = date('Y-m-d',$arrReturnDate[$i]);
			 
		}
		
		return $arrReturnDate_;
	}
	// let's try it
$arrDate=array('2007-12-07','2006-12-07','2007-07-12','2006-07-12');
	echo "<pre>".print_r(sortDateArray($arrDate),true) . 
print_r($arrDate,true)."</pre>";