“Usort”函数就是答案。 http://php.net/usort

在运行TableSorter类之前，我已经根据Shinhan提供的函数提出了一个函数。

function sort2d_bycolumn($array, $column, $method, $has_header)
  {
  if ($has_header)  $header = array_shift($array);
  foreach ($array as $key => $row) {
    $narray[$key]  = $row[$column]; 
    }
  array_multisort($narray, $method, $array);
  if ($has_header) array_unshift($array, $header);
  return $array;
  }

$array是你要排序的MD数组。 $column是您希望排序的列。 $method是你想要排序执行的方式，比如SORT_DESC 如果第一行包含您不想排序的标题值，则$has_header设置为true。

使用闭包进行多行排序

下面是使用uasort()和匿名回调函数(闭包)的另一种方法。我经常使用这个函数。需要PHP 5.3 -没有更多的依赖!

/**
 * Sorting array of associative arrays - multiple row sorting using a closure.
 * See also: http://the-art-of-web.com/php/sortarray/
 *
 * @param array $data input-array
 * @param string|array $fields array-keys
 * @license Public Domain
 * @return array
 */
function sortArray( $data, $field ) {
    $field = (array) $field;
    uasort( $data, function($a, $b) use($field) {
        $retval = 0;
        foreach( $field as $fieldname ) {
            if( $retval == 0 ) $retval = strnatcmp( $a[$fieldname], $b[$fieldname] );
        }
        return $retval;
    } );
    return $data;
}

/* example */
$data = array(
    array( "firstname" => "Mary", "lastname" => "Johnson", "age" => 25 ),
    array( "firstname" => "Amanda", "lastname" => "Miller", "age" => 18 ),
    array( "firstname" => "James", "lastname" => "Brown", "age" => 31 ),
    array( "firstname" => "Patricia", "lastname" => "Williams", "age" => 7 ),
    array( "firstname" => "Michael", "lastname" => "Davis", "age" => 43 ),
    array( "firstname" => "Sarah", "lastname" => "Miller", "age" => 24 ),
    array( "firstname" => "Patrick", "lastname" => "Miller", "age" => 27 )
);

$data = sortArray( $data, 'age' );
$data = sortArray( $data, array( 'lastname', 'firstname' ) );

下面是一个php4/php5类，它将对一个或多个字段进行排序:

// a sorter class
//  php4 and php5 compatible
class Sorter {

  var $sort_fields;
  var $backwards = false;
  var $numeric = false;

  function sort() {
    $args = func_get_args();
    $array = $args[0];
    if (!$array) return array();
    $this->sort_fields = array_slice($args, 1);
    if (!$this->sort_fields) return $array();

    if ($this->numeric) {
      usort($array, array($this, 'numericCompare'));
    } else {
      usort($array, array($this, 'stringCompare'));
    }
    return $array;
  }

  function numericCompare($a, $b) {
    foreach($this->sort_fields as $sort_field) {
      if ($a[$sort_field] == $b[$sort_field]) {
        continue;
      }
      return ($a[$sort_field] < $b[$sort_field]) ? ($this->backwards ? 1 : -1) : ($this->backwards ? -1 : 1);
    }
    return 0;
  }

  function stringCompare($a, $b) {
    foreach($this->sort_fields as $sort_field) {
      $cmp_result = strcasecmp($a[$sort_field], $b[$sort_field]);
      if ($cmp_result == 0) continue;

      return ($this->backwards ? -$cmp_result : $cmp_result);
    }
    return 0;
  }
}

/////////////////////
// usage examples

// some starting data
$start_data = array(
  array('first_name' => 'John', 'last_name' => 'Smith', 'age' => 10),
  array('first_name' => 'Joe', 'last_name' => 'Smith', 'age' => 11),
  array('first_name' => 'Jake', 'last_name' => 'Xample', 'age' => 9),
);

// sort by last_name, then first_name
$sorter = new Sorter();
print_r($sorter->sort($start_data, 'last_name', 'first_name'));

// sort by first_name, then last_name
$sorter = new Sorter();
print_r($sorter->sort($start_data, 'first_name', 'last_name'));

// sort by last_name, then first_name (backwards)
$sorter = new Sorter();
$sorter->backwards = true;
print_r($sorter->sort($start_data, 'last_name', 'first_name'));

// sort numerically by age
$sorter = new Sorter();
$sorter->numeric = true;
print_r($sorter->sort($start_data, 'age'));

我知道这个问题提出和回答已经有两年了，但这是另一个对二维数组排序的函数。它接受可变数量的参数，允许您传入多个键(即列名)进行排序。需要PHP 5.3。

function sort_multi_array ($array, $key)
{
  $keys = array();
  for ($i=1;$i<func_num_args();$i++) {
    $keys[$i-1] = func_get_arg($i);
  }

  // create a custom search function to pass to usort
  $func = function ($a, $b) use ($keys) {
    for ($i=0;$i<count($keys);$i++) {
      if ($a[$keys[$i]] != $b[$keys[$i]]) {
        return ($a[$keys[$i]] < $b[$keys[$i]]) ? -1 : 1;
      }
    }
    return 0;
  };

  usort($array, $func);

  return $array;
}

试试这里:http://www.exorithm.com/algorithm/view/sort_multi_array

你可以使用array_multisort()

试试这样做:

foreach ($mdarray as $key => $row) {
    // replace 0 with the field's index/key
    $dates[$key]  = $row[0];
}

array_multisort($dates, SORT_DESC, $mdarray);

对于PHP >= 5.5.0，只需提取要排序的列。不需要循环:

array_multisort(array_column($mdarray, 0), SORT_DESC, $mdarray);