PHP: separate value in array according to alphabate order

Question

hi,
i want to find values in array according to alphabate and want to make list in of array values according to alphabate order.

my array is like that:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Adidas [1] => AKG [2] => Apple [3] => Barrats [4] => Canon [5] => Dell [6] => Dixons [7] => HTC [8] => Liverpool [9] => Microsoft [10] => Pirelli Tyres [11] => )

)

and i want to make a list of values according to alphabate like this:

A           
________        
  Adidas       
  AKG 

plz any idea?

Answer 1

You're after asort

asort($a);
foreach($a AS $v) {
    echo $v . "<br />";
}

Answer 2

Hardly comprehensible question, but I think you are looking for sort.

Answer 3

$fruits = array("lemon", "orange", "banana", "apple"); sort($fruits); reset($fruits); while (list($key, $val) = each($fruits)) { echo "fruits[".$key."] = ".$val."\n"; }

Answer 4

Your array is already sorted.

Get hold of the inner array and then loop over the values.

Whenever the first letter changes you know its the next letter.

Answer 5

If you want to resort the list by the first letter of the company name, here's one way:

$sorted = array();
foreach($companies as $company) {
    $sorted[ strtoupper($company{0}) ][] = $company;
}

Answer 6

Just sort your array using sort() function and then print it out.
To have these letter captions just substr first letter and then compare to previou one:

$old='';
foreach ($words as $name) {
  if ($name[0] != $old) {
    echo $name[0]."<hr>\n";
  }
  echo $name."<br>\n";
  $old=$name[0];
}

Answer 7

Could use some optimization, but does exactly what you asked:

    $a = array("Chicken","Fish","Hello","Lebowski","What","hey","foo");

    asort($a);
    $alphaArr = array();

    foreach(range('A', 'Z') as $letter) {

        // create empty array at offset for current letter
        $alphaArr[$letter] = array();

        foreach($a as $item) {

            // if the first letter starts with current letter
            // push it into subarray
            if (substr(strtolower($item),0,1) == strtolower($letter)) {
                $alphaArr[$letter][] = $item;
            }
        }
    }
    print_r($alphaArr);