[DCOM-134] [GH-213] Added sort option for array collection

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:43:21 +0000

This issue is created automatically through a Github pull request on behalf of andrewtarry:

Url: https://github.com/doctrine/common/pull/213

Message:

I have added a sorter class and sortBy method for the ArrayCollection class. It gives the option to reorder the ArrayCollection after someone has gotten it from the database, e.g. from a relationship. It takes an array of method names to sort by in order to priority and it takes an optional boolean to set the order to ascending. Here is an example:

`$arraycollection->sortBy(array('getName()', 'getAddress()'));`

It will recursively loop the collection change the order. Each time it will look to see if the previous matching option is the same as for the previous element and then store those elements in list to be reordered.

Once it has looped all the elements it will reorder the elements it has matched and if there is another option to reorder by it will loop only the elements it matched last time so it is not looping the whole array each time.

Doctrine Project

[DCOM-134] [GH-213] Added sort option for array collection