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<?php $test = ['Red orange 2016','orange 2017' ,'Mango 2018' ,'Granny Smith apple 2018' ,'apple 2015']; $a = array(); // create two new arrays to hold fruit and year $b = array(); $temp = array(); foreach($test as $item){ $temp = explode(" ", $item); // explode the fruit/year to temp array $a[] = implode(" ", array_splice($temp, 0, -1)); // implode all but the last item as "fruit" $b[] = end($temp); // last item is the year } array_multisort($b, $a); // sort the new arrays $result=array(); for($i=count($b)-1; $i>=0; $i--){ // looping backwards to only count() once. (faster) $result[] = $a[$i] . " " . $b[$i]; // rebuild the new array with correct sorting. } var_dump($result);