case insensitive array sorting

[mattyrob]

Several arrays are sorted using ksort before being displayed in the admin section, examples include Plugins and Users & Authors.

ksort is a case sensitive method and as such all capitilised entries rank higher than non-capitalised entires.

Perhaps using:

uksort($myArray, "strnatcasecmp");

would allow all entires to be displayed aplhabetically.

I've tried this amendment in wp-admin/users.php and it worked for me.

[masquerade]

Why not natcasesort()?

[mattyrob]

natcasesort doesn't work in wp-admin.user.php
At line 375 there is a foreach statement as follows
foreach($roleclasses as $role => $roleclass) {

ksort($roleclass); current code
uksort($roleclass, "strnatcasecmp"); list of names appear in alphabetical order irrespective of case
natcasesort($roleclass); list appears in a very unusual order that I'm at a loss to explain

[mattyrob]

Sorry about the above post it's been scrambled somewhat!

natcasesort doesn't work on my test installtion of version 2.1

ksort works but lists entires that are capitalised followed by those that are lower case.

uksort works as expected - all entires in one single a-z

natcasesort lists all entires but in an order that I cannot find an explanation for - and it certainly isn't a-z!

[Nazgul]

Created a patch based on the given suggestions.

[Nazgul]

Candidate for 2.0.5 inclusion.

[markjaquith]

(In [4289]) case insensitive sorting. props Nazgul. fixes #3108

[markjaquith]

(In [4290]) case insensitive sorting. props Nazgul. fixes #3108

[Viper007Bond]

Fuckin' yey! :D

The very ​first ticket I ever made (over a year ago) was on this subject. Even turned it into ​a plugin since people said "no way!" to my ticket. 'Bout time it finally got fixed. :)

[Viper007Bond]

Tsk tsk, not fixed. I have 3 plugins on my SVN plugins page and they are listed in this order:

Akismet
Hello Dolly
Example Login Form Plugin

​Source for my plugin if it matters.

[Viper007Bond]

Disregard. My first comment was before testing and my 2nd was before I realized that this was just better filename sorting. I really shouldn't look at code while so tired. :(

Although it would be nice to get true alphabetical plugins...

[markjaquith]

Yeah, patch actually didn't address plugin sorting... but this next commit will.

The code to sort by plugin NAME (rather than filename) is in WP, but it's using the wrong function (uksort() instead of uasort()), so it won't work.

What's going to kill you is that plugin of yours will be made obsolete by a ONE CHARACTER CHANGE in WordPress core. :-D

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Milestone 2.0.5 deleted