Order array by value

Just a quick code snippet here. I had been looking for a reasonable way to sort an array by the values that are inside it. For example if your array is:

$array = array(
  'id' => 1, 'name' => 'Graham',
  'id' => 2, 'name' => 'Will',
  'id' => 3, 'name' => 'Ryan',
);

But you want your array to be order by name; in this order:

$array = array(
  'id' => 1, 'name' => 'Graham',
  'id' => 3, 'name' => 'Ryan',
  'id' => 2, 'name' => 'Will',
);

Here is a quick function to help you out. It will also sort in reverse order if you like.

function record_sort($records, $field, $reverse=false)
{
  $hash = array();
  foreach($records as $record)
  {
    $hash[$record[$field]] = $record;
  }
  ($reverse)? krsort($hash) : ksort($hash);
  $records = array();
  foreach($hash as $record)
  {
    $records []= $record;
  }
  return $records;
}

Order array by value

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