Sorting a PHP array

[fallen_angel]

I have an array of items from a PHP session that I want to display in a HTML table along with the value for each item. Because in the same table I'm going to be pulling data from a db too, I need the items in the array and their values to always be pulled out and displayed in the same order. The problem is that they might not be added to the array in the same order.

For example, print_r($_SESSION['objects']); five minutes ago gave me

Array ( [apples] => 2 [pears] => 2 [bananas] => 1 [kiwi] => 3)

The next time,

Array ( [pears] => 2 [bananas] => 2 [apples] => 1 [kiwi] => 3)

What I need is for them to always be displayed in the same order in the table, say alphabetically, so in the table I'd have,

Fruit | Number |
apples | 2 |
bananas | 3 |
kiwi | 1 |
pears | 2 |

Ordinarily I'd probably use a foreach loop to write out the rows, but the pulling stuff from the db at the same time's complicating things, so I'm using boring static table markup and trying to put the results of the array in as variables.

Any idea how I'd do this?

[JustinStudios]

Hrmmm...
Can't you just use

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asort($my_array);

That'd keep the text applying in the same order.

[fallen_angel]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've just tried asort and it doesn't seem to work for me though. ksort does though, and I've now got it set up using foreach again - I'm not sure quite what the difference between asort and ksort is. At least that's working though. Now all I've got to do is to figure out how to write the result of the mysql query into the third column at the same time.

[JustinStudios]

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ksort — Sort an array by key 
asort — Sort an array and maintain index association

I may have misread what you were wanting. At least it is working now .