Group array by subarray values

foreach($array as $key => $value){
   $newarray[$value['id']][$key] = $value;
}

var_dump($newarray);

piece of cake ;)

$arr = array();

foreach ($old_arr as $key => $item) {
   $arr[$item['id']][$key] = $item;
}

ksort($arr, SORT_NUMERIC);

You can also use Arrays::groupBy() from ouzo-goodies:

$groupBy = Arrays::groupBy($array, Functions::extract()->id);

print_r($groupBy);

And result:

Array
(
    [20] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 20
                    [name] => chimpanzee
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 20
                    [name] => dynasty
                )

        )

    [40] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 40
                    [name] => meeting
                )

        )

    [50] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 50
                    [name] => chocolate
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 50
                    [name] => fantasy
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 50
                    [name] => football
                )

        )

    [10] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 10
                    [name] => bananas
                )

        )

)

And here are the docs for Arrays and Functions.

The following code adapts @Tim Cooper’s code to mitigate Undefined index: id errors in the event that one of the inner arrays doesn’t contain an id:

$arr = array();

foreach($old_arr as $key => $item)
{
    if(array_key_exists('id', $item))
        $arr[$item['id']][$key] = $item;
}

ksort($arr, SORT_NUMERIC);

However, it will drop inner arrays without an id.

E.g.

$old_arr = array(
    'a' => array ( 'id' => 20, 'name' => 'chimpanzee' ),
    'b' => array ( 'id' => 40, 'name' => 'meeting' ),
    'c' => array ( 'id' => 20, 'name' => 'dynasty' ),
    'd' => array ( 'id' => 50, 'name' => 'chocolate' ),
    'e' => array ( 'id' => 10, 'name' => 'bananas' ),
    'f' => array ( 'id' => 50, 'name' => 'fantasy' ),
    'g' => array ( 'id' => 50, 'name' => 'football' ),
    'h' => array ( 'name' => 'bob' )
);

will drop the 'h' array completely.