Be careful when using ksort for mixed type keys!!
$a = array(
'first' => true,
0 => 'sally',
);
$b = array(
0 => 'sally',
'first' => true,
);
ksort($a);
ksort($b);
var_dump($a);
var_dump($b);
Output is:
array(
0 => 'sally',
'first' => true,
)
array(
'first' => true,
0 => 'sally',
)
If you want same results for both arrays, use:
ksort($a, SORT_STRING);
The reason for that lays in the compare mechanism which would normally just typecast 'first' to an integer or 0 to a string when comparing it to each other. So you have to use SORT_STRING, otherwise you would lose information when 'first' is converted to int.