Between the "shortcut ternary" (aka "elvis") and "spaceship" operators, you can write some quite compact comparison functions for usort and its ilk.
If you want to sort an array of associative arrays by several different keys you can chain them in the same way that you can list column names in an SQL ORDER BY clause.
<?php
usort($array, fn($a, $b) => $a['a'] <=> $b['a']
?: $b['b'] <=> $a['b']
?: $a['c'] <=> $b['c']);
?>
Will sort the array by column 'a', then by column 'b' descending, then by column 'c'; or in SQL-speak 'ORDER BY a, b DESC, c".
