I think the best way to deal with this problem would be sorting the 
array BEFORE it is assigned.

You can define our own sorting function for that:

function sort_pref($a,$b)
{
	if($a['Preferences']['position']==$b['Preferences']['position'])
		return 0;
	return ($a['Preferences']['position'] < $b['Preferences']['position']) 
? -1 : 1;
}

then you call usort:

usort($the_array,"sort_pref");

See also the documentation for usort.


With best regards

Gabriel Birke

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Am 16.02.2004 um 08:30 schrieb Vonleigh Simmons:

> Hello,
>
> 	I have a section of my site that builds up the navigation list. On 
> the bottom of this email you can find a sample array, the smarty code 
> and the output.
>
> 	The array has a variable called position. The default is for position 
> not to be set. As it stands the foreach loop outputs the list in the 
> order in which it receives it (which is the order in which they were 
> put into the db).
>
> 	However I'd like for smarty to output the list in the order in which 
> it receives it _except_ when the position is explicitly set. For 
> example a user could add a Home link and set it to position=1.
>
>  	I'm not sure how exactly to do this and would appreciate any 
> suggestion you may have.
>
>
>   Vonleigh Simmons [vanlei]
>   San Francisco, CA
> <www.illusionart.com/pi/>
>
>
> Array
> (
>     [Preferences] => Array
>         (
>             [id] => 2
>             [name] => Preferences
>             [type] => title
>             [value] =>
> 	   [position] =>
>             [children] => Array
>                 (
>                     [Personal Details] => Array
>                         (
>                             [id] => 1
>                             [name] => Personal Details
>                             [type] => preferences
>                             [value] => personal_details/
> 			[position] =>
>                             [children] =>
>                         )
>
>                 )
>
>         )...
>
> 	The smarty foreach that builds the list looks like so:
>
>    <ul>
>     {foreach name=category from=$userNavi key=catkey item=category}
>         {if $category.type eq "title"}
>         <li class="category">{$category.name}</li>
>         {else}
>         <li class="category"><a 
> href="{$category.value}">{$category.name}</a></li>
>         {/if}
>         {foreach name=subcategories from=$category.children 
> key=subcatkey item=subcategory}
>             <li class="subcategory"><a 
> href="{$subcategory.value}">{$subcategory.name}</a></li>
>         {/foreach}
>     {/foreach}
>     </ul>
>
> 	The output is then:
>
> <li class="category">Preferences</li>
> <li class="subcategory"><a href="personal_details/">Personal 
> Details</a></li>
>
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