Sorting is very common operation in many languages and a lot of data. Of course the best way is to sort on database, because it’s created for such operations, but sometimes I work with smaller parts of data and do that on API server side. Since when I’ve used Laravel, I often use Collections instead of arrays – they methods are very clean, simple and offer a lot of possibilities. I also often sort collections before outputting them as, for example JSON – natural sorting is more than useful in so many cases. But there is one important thing: if you have associative array (or collection) and use sorting, you client will not receive valid array, but object. This short post will show you, how to deal with it.
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