I have several arrays containing team data... array_multisort() appears to not be keeping the team data associations. I have something like this:
Teams[$z] = various strings
ConfNum[$z] = various strings
$DivNum[$z] = various strings
$DivWinner[$z] = integer of 1 or 0.
$TeamRank[$z] = integer of the team's rank
for debugging, I use a for loop and print the value of each... so $Teams[$z] - $ConfNum[$z] - $DivNum[$z] ... etc.
I run array_multisort() (I've used this many times in the past) and suddenly the associations are no longer there.
Here's my debugging.
BEFORE array_multisort:
key - Teams - Conf - Div - Rank - DivWin - Series
z:0 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 1
z:1 - 10 - 2 - 7 - 8 - 1 - 2
z:2 - 75 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 3
z:3 - 11 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 0 - 4
z:4 - 55 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 5
z:5 - 79 - 1 - 6 - 3 - 1 - 6
z:6 - 67 - 1 - 6 - 4 - 0 - 7
z:7 - 4 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 0 - 8
Please note z:1... team 10 should be Conf 2 Div 2 .. etc. I then run my array_multsort:
array_multisort($DivWinner,SORT_DESC,$TeamRank,$Teams,$ConfNum,$DivNum,$SeriesID);
This puts my DivWinners at the top, then sorted by my TeamRank. I include Teams, ConfNum, DivNum, SeriesID as I want to maintain the associations for all those arrays after the sort.
After the sort I get this:
key - Teams - Conf - Div - Rank - DivWin - Series
z:0 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 1
z:1 - 10 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2
z:2 - 11 - 1 - 6 - 3 - 1 - 4
z:3 - 4 - 2 - 7 - 8 - 1 - 8
z:4 - 75 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 3
z:5 - 55 - 1 - 6 - 4 - 0 - 5
z:6 - 79 - 2 - 2 - 5 - 0 - 6
z:7 - 67 - 1 - 1 - 6 - 0 - 7
So now we go and look at team 10 again.
It's now set to Conf 1 Div 1... completely incorrect.
It is a DivWinner (set to 1) so it should rank "higher", however, TeamRank is 8... so of the four DivWinners, it should be the lowest... instead it's ranked 2nd.
I believe you have a bug in the way you're printing out the sorted arrays, here's what I tried and it seems to work.
<?php
$Teams = array(3,10,75,11,55,79,67,4);
$ConfNum = array(2,2,2,2,1,1,1,1);
$DivNum = array(2,7,2,2,1,6,6,1);
$DivWinner = array(1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0);
$rank = array(0,8,2,5,1,3,4,6);
$series = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);
array_multisort($DivWinner,SORT_DESC,$Teams,$ConfNum,$DivNum, $rank, $series);
?><table>
<tr>
<th>teams</th>
<th>conf</th>
<th>div</th>
<th>rank</th>
<th>winner</th>
<th>series</th>
</tr>
<tbody>
<?php for($i = 0;$i < count($Teams); $i++):?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $Teams[$i]?></td>
<td><?php echo $ConfNum[$i]?></td>
<td><?php echo $DivNum[$i]?></td>
<td><?php echo $rank[$i]?></td>
<td><?php echo $DivWinner[$i]?></td>
<td><?php echo $series[$i]?></td>
</tr>
<?php endfor;?>
teams conf div rank winner series 3 2 2 0 1 1 10 2 7 8 1 2 55 1 1 1 1 5 79 1 6 3 1 6 4 1 1 6 0 8 11 2 2 5 0 4 67 1 6 4 0 7 75 2 2 2 0 3
OR maybe your code is bugged somewhere else.