sharataka

I am trying to pass data from a product page into a shopping cart page using an array. There are multiple attributes that the viewcart.php will receive from the previous page (price, link, title, and retailer). I’d like to save them all using an array. For each additional item a customer adds to the shopping cart, I’m trying to get a counter variable ($i) to increment an array $_SESSION[‘cart’][$i][‘attribute’]. How do I do this?

I’m not sure this is the right way to add new products to the cart. In the end, I’d like a way to be able to display all the products in the cart using a for loop. This is the start I have so far on the shopping cart script:

<?php

  // The shopping cart needs sessions, so start one
  session_start();

  @$link = $_GET['link'];
$price = $_GET['price'];
$title = $_GET['title'];
$retailer = $_GET['retailer'];


  if($link) {
    //new item selected
    if(!isset($_SESSION['cart'])) {
      $_SESSION['cart'] = array();
      $_SESSION['items'] = 0;
      $_SESSION['total_price'] ='0.00';
    }

    if(isset($_SESSION['cart'][$link])) {
      $_SESSION['cart'][$link]++;
    } else {
      $_SESSION['cart'][$link] = 1;
    }


  }

  if(($_SESSION['cart']) && (array_count_values($_SESSION['cart']))) {
    echo " in your cart and we're working to display them";
  } 
  else {
    echo "<p>There are no items in your cart</p><hr/>";
  }

?>

This is the for loop that I’m thinking I could use. I’m looking for some way to display all the items in the array.

for ($x=0; $x<=$i; $i++)
  {
  echo "The price is " . $_SESSION['cart'][$x][price] . "  Retailer is " . $_SESSION['cart'][$x]    [retailer] . "<br>";
  }