How to useasort() Function for Associative Arrays in PHP

Approach 3: Using natsort() Function for Natural Sorting

If you have an associative array with keys and values, you can use asort() to sort the array by values while maintaining the key-value association.

PHP

<?php 
  
$names = [ 
    "John" => 30, 
    "Alice" => 25, 
    "Bob" => 35, 
    "Eve" => 28, 
    "Charlie" => 40 
]; 
  
asort($names); 
  
print_r($names); 
  
?>

Output

Array
(
    [Alice] => 25
    [Eve] => 28
    [John] => 30
    [Bob] => 35
    [Charlie] => 40
)

PHP Program to Sort Names in an Alphabetical Order

Sorting names in alphabetical order is a common task in programming. PHP provides several functions and methods to achieve this.

Examples:

Input: arr = ["Sourabh", "Anoop, "Harsh", "Alok", "Tanuj"]
Output: ["Alok", "Anoop", "Harsh", "Sourabh", "Tanuj"]

Input: arr = ["John", "Alice", "Bob", "Eve", "Charlie"]
Output: ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie", "Eve", "John"]