How to "natural sort" a PageArray

[spos]

I'm trying to sort a PageArray by $page->name and because there are digits in the name I need to use a natural sort (like php's natsort()).

I've gone through the process outlined in https://processwire.com/talk/topic/3392-emulate-natsort/ but I must be missing something because I can't get it to work at all.

I then tried a different way and created an array of the page names, used natsort and implode to give me a correctly sorted string to use in a selector.  I then do $output = $pages->find("name=$selector_text"); and the correct pages are returned but they're not in the same order as in my selector string.

I've only found a couple mentions of natural sorting on the forums so I must be missing something simple but I just can't put my finger on it.

[adrian]

The method on that page you linked to should work just fine, but obviously will need tweaking for a PageArray, rather than a WireArray of images.

Show us the code you are using so we can debug that for you.

[spos]

Fixed it and cleaned it up this morning.  Here's the function should anyone have any ideas for streamlining it or wanders across this thread searching for a possible solution:

function natural_sort_pagearray($unsorted_array)
{
	$temp_array = array();

	foreach($unsorted_array as $page) {
		$temp_array[] = $page;
	}

	usort($temp_array, function($a, $b)
	{
		return strnatcmp($a->name, $b->name);
	});

	$sorted_array = new PageArray();
	$sorted_array->import($temp_array);
	return $sorted_array;
}

[vxda]

i have same problem with my pageArray, its get meessed up after :
 

$pageArray= $pages->find('template=news, limit=25');

Cant find solution to this.