Adding an array to an array

Hi everyone,

having a real headache over arrays at the moment. Had a search through the forums but can't find what im after so i'll begin here.

I'm in the process of setting up a shopping cart. I'm pretty much there with it all, however there is one thing which is giving me a really hard time.

My products can have attributes or options (e.g. i'm selling a t-shirt which can have different size and colour options) which are displayed in a drop down list.

My problem is, if I or a customer were to choose more than one option, e.g. a red, medium T-shirt, how would i store the two or more options in a session?

Here is my code for the drop down lists:

<select name="attribute['.$i.']" class="input" id="attribute['.$i.']">

and then some php to loop through the values.

The user would then select their desired option(s) and click on add to cart button.

Now were on add_cart.php, this is where i post the options and other details and then add it to the session.

My code for looping through the options is as follows:

$attribute = $_POST['attribute'];
	$count = $_POST['count'];
	$i = 0;
		for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++){
		$att_ref = $attribute[$i];
	}

And my code to add info to the session.

// Add to the cart:
			$_SESSION['cart'][$pid] = array ('quantity' => $qty, 'price' => $prod_price, 'description' => $desc, 'att_ref' => $att_ref);

My problem lies within the att_ref bit of the session / array.

the above code for looping through the options will pick out the correct attribute references, so if i chose option 1 and 4 $att_ref would return 14.

But when i try to add this to the session / array, it only ever adds 1 and not the 4.

So what i want to be able to do is store multiple values in the 'att_ref' => $att_ref bit and then be able to extract the values from the array and then display what options the customer chose in the view_cart.php page, which i can do, but it only ever pulls out the first option and not the 2nd and 3rd etc.

Any ideas?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards Dan.

[urtrivedi]

change line no 5 of second code block to following

$att_ref .= $attribute[$i].",";

separte selected codes with comma. Also you are directly assing you must concat to retain previous loop values.

[johny_d]

If this si what you want - to have all the attribute values in a comma separated string - then you just have to do an implode (no loop) to $attribute:

$att_ref = implode(",", $attribute);

But id don't understand why you don't just assign the whole $attribute array to the $_SESSION ?!!

If this si what you want - to have all the attribute values in a comma separated string - then you just have to do an implode (no loop) to $attribute:

$att_ref = implode(",", $attribute);

But id don't understand why you don't just assign the whole $attribute array to the $_SESSION ?!!

Hi,

Thanks to both of you for the input.

Johny_d, i've tried assigning the $attribute to the session and when i try to pull the references from it, it just says array, however the way you suggested, brings back 1,4

what i need to do now is seperate the 1,4 so that i can loop through a select query and pull out the information on the option from the database.

e.g.

$q2 ="SELECT * FROM attributes WHERE att_ref = '1'";

$q2 ="SELECT * FROM attributes WHERE att_ref = '4'";

Any idea on how to do this, or am i going about it the wrong way?

Regards,
Dan

[NettSite]

Try

select * from attribute where att_ref in (1,4);