1 <?php 2  3  4 $characters = array(‘a‘,‘b‘,‘c‘,‘d‘,‘e‘,‘f‘); 5 arsort($characters); 6 print_r($characters); 7 /* 8     Array ( [5] => f [4] => e [3] => d [2] => c [1] => b [0] => a )  9 */10 11 12 13 $numbers = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);14 arsort($numbers);15 print_r($numbers);16 /*17 Array ( [7] => 8 [6] => 7 [5] => 6 [4] => 5 [3] => 4 [2] => 3 [1] => 2 [0] => 1 )18 */19 20 $fruits = array(‘lemon‘ , ‘orange‘ ,‘banana‘ , ‘apple‘);21 arsort($fruits);22 print_r($fruits);23 /*24 Array ( [1] => orange [0] => lemon [2] => banana [3] => apple )25 */26 27 /*arsort()函数对中文的排序结果*/28 $chinese = array(‘爱‘,‘本‘,‘吃‘,‘地‘);//ai-ben-chi-di29 var_dump(arsort($chinese));30 print_r($chinese);31 /*32     bool(true) 33     Array ( [0] => 爱 [1] => 本 [3] => 地 [2] => 吃 )34 */35 36 $pingyin = array(‘ai‘,‘ben‘,‘chi‘,‘di‘);37 arsort($pingyin);38 print_r($pingyin);39 /*40     Array ( [3] => di [2] => chi [1] => ben [0] => ai )41 */42 ?>