Using usort and strcomp together to order an array by one of its keys has an odd effect: it returns my array with fewer items in it than I put in.
The array in my case contains rows representing tasks, and I want to order the rows in the array by the key 'displayorder', which is a number but which I want to be sorted in alphabetical manner (don't ask why).
function treeSort($a, $b) {
return strcmp(strval($a['displayOrder']), strval($b['displayOrder']));
}
usort($tree, "treeSort");
There are nine rows, but I only get six of them back. Those six are nicely sorted, by the way. If I use uasort instead of usort, I do get all nine rows, but ordered in a numerical way.