I would like to create a (non-anonymous) function that sorts an array of objects alphabetically by the key name
. I only code straight-out JavaScript so frameworks don't help me in the least.
var people = [
{'name': 'a75', 'item1': false, 'item2': false},
{'name': 'z32', 'item1': true, 'item2': false},
{'name': 'e77', 'item1': false, 'item2': false}
];
How about this?
var people = [
{
name: 'a75',
item1: false,
item2: false
},
{
name: 'z32',
item1: true,
item2: false
},
{
name: 'e77',
item1: false,
item2: false
}];
function sort_by_key(array, key)
{
return array.sort(function(a, b)
{
var x = a[key]; var y = b[key];
return ((x < y) ? -1 : ((x > y) ? 1 : 0));
});
}
people = sort_by_key(people, 'name');
This allows you to specify the key by which you want to sort the array so that you are not limited to a hard-coded name sort. It will work to sort any array of objects that all share the property which is used as they key. I believe that is what you were looking for?
And here is a jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/6Dgbu/