sort array based on the dateTime in php

Question

Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [dateTime] => 2011-10-18 0:0:00
                    [chanl1] => 20.7
                 


        

Answer 1

For performance, this method using array_multisort is very efficient:

$ord = array();
foreach ($array as $key => $value){
    $ord[] = strtotime($value['dateTime']);
}
array_multisort($ord, SORT_ASC, $array);
print_r($array);