PHP Laravel sort by semver, software version or version-dotted number

sortSemVer.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Collection;

function sortSemVer(Collection $data)
{
    $mapped = $data->map(function ($a, $i) {
        return [
            'index' => $i,
            'value' => str_split($a),
        ];
    });


    $mapped = $mapped->sortBy([function ($a, $b) {

        $i = 0;
        $l = min(count($a['value']), count($b['value']));

        // find the "first" value to compare in the string
        while ($i < $l && $a['value'][$i] === $b['value'][$i]) {
            $i++;
        }
        if ($i === $l) {
            return count($a['value']) - count($b['value']);
        }

        if (is_numeric($a['value'][$i]) && is_numeric($b['value'][$i])) {
            return $a['value'][$i] - $b['value'][$i];
        }

        return $a['value'][$i] - $b['value'][$i];
    }]);

    //$mapped.sort(sort[order] || sort.asc);
    return $mapped->map(function ($el) use ($data) {
        return $data[$el['index']];
    });
}

$array = collect(['5.05.1', '5', '4.21.0.0.0.24', '4.21.0.0.2', '4.21.0.0.1', '4.22.0', '6.1.0', '5.1.0', '2', '4.1']);

dump(sortSemVer($array));