根据laravel中的日期对配置变量进行排序

Question

I have a config variable that uses a foreach loop to print out all the objects. Is there a way to sort what prints out based on date? Here is my code for printing out the object. I want to sort it based on $press['date']

@foreach (config('constants.pressMetadata') as $press)
    <div>
        <p id="quote">{{ $press['title'] }}</p>
        <div class="more label"><a id="link" href="{{$press['url']}}">-{{$press['company']}}: {{$press['date']}}</a></div>
        <hr>
    </div>
@endforeach

Here is constants.pressMetadata :

'pressMetadata'=>[
      "AARP" => [
          "id" => 1,
          "company" => "AARP",
          "title" => "Updating Your Résumé for the Digital Age",
          "url" => "http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/info-2016/give-resume-a-digital-reboot.html",
          "date" => "Sep 9, 2016"
      ],
      "Business Insider" => [
          "id" => 2,
          "company" => "Business Insider",
          "title" => "8 things you should always include on your résumé",
          "url" => "http://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-always-include-on-your-resume-2016-1",
          "date" => "Jan 28, 2016"
      ],
      "Morning Journal" => [
          "id" => 3,
          "company" => "Morning Journal",
          "title" => "5 things you missed: Google updates search, Jobscan and more",
          "url" => "http://www.morningjournal.com/article/MJ/20140124/NEWS/140129366",
          "date" => "Jan 24, 2014"
      ],
],

Answer 1

You should be able to use Laravel's collections to make this pretty easy. Wrap the call to config() in a call to collect() , and then use the sortBy() method on the collection to sort the records by the strtotime() value of the 'date' key. Use the sortByDesc() method if you want to sort the other way.

@foreach (collect(config('constants.pressMetadata'))->sortBy(function ($press) { return strtotime($press['date']); }) as $press)

Documentation here .

Answer 2

You can use the usort function of PHP.

The following code is taken from the PHP manual and changed to reflect your needs

function cmp($a, $b)
{
    if (strtotime($a['date']) == strtotime($b['date'])) {
        return 0;
    }
    return (strtotime($a['date']) < strtotime($b['date'])) ? -1 : 1;
}

usort(config('constants.pressMetadata'), "cmp");