WireArray::sortFlags() method

Get or set sort flags that affect behavior of any sorting functions

The following constants may be used when setting the sort flags:

  • SORT_REGULAR compare items normally (don’t change types)
  • SORT_NUMERIC compare items numerically
  • SORT_STRING compare items as strings
  • SORT_LOCALE_STRING compare items as strings, based on the current locale
  • SORT_NATURAL compare items as strings using “natural ordering” like natsort()
  • SORT_FLAG_CASE can be combined (bitwise OR) with SORT_STRING or SORT_NATURAL to sort strings case-insensitively
  • SORT_APPEND_NULLS can be used on its own or combined with any of above (bitwise OR) to specify that null or blank values should be treated as unsortable and appended to the end of the sortable set rather than sorted as blank values. This duplicates the behavior prior to 3.0.194 (available only in 3.0.194+). Note that this flag is unique to ProcessWire only and is not in PHP.

For more details, see $sort_flags argument at: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php

Available since version 3.0.129.

Usage

// basic usage
$int = $wireArray->sortFlags();

// usage with all arguments
$int = $wireArray->sortFlags(bool $sortFlags = false);

Arguments

NameType(s)Description
sortFlags (optional)bool

Optionally specify flag(s) to set

Return value

int

Returns current flags


WireArray methods and properties

API reference based on ProcessWire core version 3.0.236

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