Re: [PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-13 Thread Chris Hewitt
Nick, I would use two fields in the database, "FirstName" and "LastName". The "LastName" should be mandatory in your input from the user. Then you can simply extract the data with an sql statement that uses "order by LastName". If you have a significant number of records, this will be fastest

Re: [PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-12 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Jason Wong declared > If that is what you want then: > while (names) { > explode the name > if there is more than one element swap it, then join > add this processed name onto a new array > } > > use one of the array sort functi

Re: [PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-12 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then John Holmes declared > Whatever kind of "hack" you come up with in PHP is going to be a waste > of time and memory. Depends on your view point, the client was happy with one field for the name and now wants the records returned sorte

RE: [PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-12 Thread Jason Soza
cause I was lazy and using PHP to do this for me seemed to be the easier choice. It's not, and doing it that way is far from efficient. HTH, Jason Soza -Original Message- From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:26 PM To: 'PHP-General' Subjec

RE: [PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-12 Thread John Holmes
kind of "hack" you come up with in PHP is going to be a waste of time and memory. ---John Holmes... > -Original Message- > From: Nick Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 9:23 AM > To: php-general > Subject: [PHP] help with sort pr

Re: [PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-12 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 13 May 2002 00:23, Nick Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > I hope someone might help me with a little puzzle... > > I have bunch of db results and one of the fields is 'name', > I want to see if there are 2 parts to it like FirstName LastName and if > so order by the last name. > > I can see expl

[PHP] help with sort problem

2002-05-12 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I hope someone might help me with a little puzzle... I have bunch of db results and one of the fields is 'name', I want to see if there are 2 parts to it like FirstName LastName and if so order by the last name. I can see explode() being t