How can I display the max value array, edited in a class

Question

I need to find the worker with highest salary in PHP and display only him (his name, position and salary). Made several tries in the IF statement but none of them lead to what i needed.

class Workers {

    public $name;
    public $position;
    public $salary;

    private function Workers($name, $position, $salary){
        $this->name = $name;
        $this->position = $position;
        $this->salary = $salary;
    }

    public function newWorker($name, $position, $salary){
//      if (  ) {
            return new Workers($name, $position, $salary);
//      }
//      else return NULL;
    }

}

$arr = array();
$arr[] = Workers::newWorker("Peter", "work1", 600);
$arr[] = Workers::newWorker("John", "work2", 700);
$arr[] = Workers::newWorker("Hans", "work3", 550);
$arr[] = Workers::newWorker("Maria", "work4", 900);
$arr[] = Workers::newWorker("Jim", "work5", 1000);

print_r($arr);

This is my code and like that it will display all workers i have created but i need to output only the one with highest salary (worker 5 - Jim with 1000 salary)

Answer 1

You can use this snippet:

$max = null;
foreach ($arr as $worker) {
   $max = $max === null ? $worker : ($worker->salary > $max->salary ? $worker : $max);
}

Or this, as more clarity:

$max = null;
foreach ($arr as $worker) {
  if (!$max) {
     $max = $worker; 
  } elseif ($worker->salary > $max->salary) {
      $max = $worker; 
  } 
}

$max now contains a worker with maximum salary.