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<refentry xml:id="function.dbx-sort" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<refnamediv>
<refname>dbx_sort</refname>
<refpurpose>
Sort a result from a dbx_query by a custom sort function
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>dbx_sort</methodname>
<methodparam><type>object</type><parameter>result</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>user_compare_function</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Sort a result from a <function>dbx_query</function> call with a custom sort
function.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>result</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
A result set returned by <function>dbx_query</function>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>user_compare_function</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The user-defined comparison function. It must accept two arguments and
return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the
first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to,
or greater than the second.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
&return.success;
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>dbx_sort</function> example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
function user_re_order($a, $b)
{
$rv = dbx_compare($a, $b, "parentid", DBX_CMP_DESC);
if (!$rv) {
$rv = dbx_compare($a, $b, "id", DBX_CMP_NUMBER);
}
return $rv;
}
$link = dbx_connect(DBX_ODBC, "", "db", "username", "password")
or die("Could not connect");
$result = dbx_query($link, "SELECT id, parentid, description FROM tbl ORDER BY id");
// data in $result is now ordered by id
dbx_sort($result, "user_re_order");
// data in $result is now ordered by parentid (descending), then by id
dbx_close($link);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="notes">
&reftitle.notes;
<note>
<para>
It is always better to use <literal>ORDER BY</literal>
<literal>SQL</literal> clause instead of <function>dbx_sort</function>
if possible.
</para>
</note>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function>dbx_compare</function></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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