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<?php // Here is your sorting order: $sorts = [ 'Manager' => 1, 'Assistant' => 2, 'Flexworker' => 3, 'Cleaning' => 4, 'Frontoffice' => 5, 'Other' => 6 ]; // This is representative data: $employees = [ ['name' => 'Jan', 'category' => 'Cleaning'], ['name' => 'Jane', 'category' => 'Manager'], ['name' => 'Jano', 'category' => 'Assistant'], ['name' => 'Janu', 'category' => 'Assistant'], ['name' => 'Janx', 'category' => 'Flexworker'], ['name' => 'Janny', 'category' => 'Frontoffice'], ['name' => 'Jando', 'category' => 'Other'], ['name' => 'Jansan', 'category' => 'Manager'], ]; // Here we lookup the sorting value for each category usort($employees, function($a, $b) use ($sorts) { return $sorts[$a['category']] <=> $sorts[$b['category']]; }); print_r($employees);
Output for 7.3.13 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4, 8.3.6 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.18, 8.5.0 - 8.5.3
Array ( [0] => Array ( [name] => Jane [category] => Manager ) [1] => Array ( [name] => Jansan [category] => Manager ) [2] => Array ( [name] => Jano [category] => Assistant ) [3] => Array ( [name] => Janu [category] => Assistant ) [4] => Array ( [name] => Janx [category] => Flexworker ) [5] => Array ( [name] => Jan [category] => Cleaning ) [6] => Array ( [name] => Janny [category] => Frontoffice ) [7] => Array ( [name] => Jando [category] => Other ) )
Output for 8.3.5
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 Array ( [0] => Array ( [name] => Jane [category] => Manager ) [1] => Array ( [name] => Jansan [category] => Manager ) [2] => Array ( [name] => Jano [category] => Assistant ) [3] => Array ( [name] => Janu [category] => Assistant ) [4] => Array ( [name] => Janx [category] => Flexworker ) [5] => Array ( [name] => Jan [category] => Cleaning ) [6] => Array ( [name] => Janny [category] => Frontoffice ) [7] => Array ( [name] => Jando [category] => Other ) )

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