I'm working on a leader board that pulls the top scorers into first, second, and third place based on points. Right now I'm working with a sorted array that looks like this (but could be of infinite length with infinite point values):
$scores = Array
(
["bob"] => 20
["Jane"] => 20
["Jill"] => 15
["John"] => 10
["Jacob"] => 5
)
I imagine I could use a simple slice or chunk, but I'd like to allow for ties, and ignore any points that don't fit into the top three places, like so:
$first = Array
(
["bob"] => 20
["Jane"] => 20
)
$second = Array
(
["Jill"] => 15
)
$third = Array
(
["John"] => 10
)
$arr = array(
"Jacob" => 5,
"bob" => 20,
"Jane" => 20,
"Jill" => 15,
"John" => 10,
);
arsort($arr);
$output = array();
foreach($arr as $name=>$score)
{
$output[$score][$name] = $score;
if (count($output)>3)
{
array_pop($output);
break;
}
}
$output = array_values($output);
var_dump($output);
$first will be in $output[0], $second in $output[1] and so on.. Code is limited to 3 first places.
ps: updated to deal with tie on the third place