SQL type processes on php arrays

[ukgimp]

Is it possible to perform SQL type processes on arrays. For example if I were to have a block of text and explode the words would it be possible to GROUP BY the word?

Perhaps there is a built in php function to do this? (hoping :))

Cheers

[Birdman]

Hi uk,

Maybe the sort function [php.net]. There were other variations of sort() also.

[andreasfriedrich]

Something like GROUP BY is usually done using a hash. You loop over the array and put the elements into a hash. If a certain key already exists do whatever you need to do, i.e. use whatever aggregate function you would use in SQL.

Andreas

[jatar_k]

array_multisort() [php.net] works well for sorting multi dimensional arrays. The comments were helpful in understanding how it works.