:)
The solution is rather easy, but requires some explanation in order to be understood.
What you need here is to:
- Create a new php file, which would fetch the post data (in this case ID of an element) and then simply unset the key (sub-array), which contains the cart item you want to remove.
You can use
$key_to_remove = array_search($_POST['stock_item_id'], array_column($_SESSION["cart"], 'StockItemID')); and then simply unset it unset($_SESSION["cart"][$key_to_remove]);
- Assign
id="remove_<?php echo $data["StockItemID"]; ?>" to the <div class="basket-product"> and data-product-id="<?php echo $data["StockItemID"]; ?>" to the button, so you can identify it for item removal via javascript/jquery and you need that value extracted later for the item you want to remove from the corresponding session array (which is, in this case, $_SESSION["cart"]).
- Create a callback function for removal
on('click', function(){});
- Inside that function extract that value
data-product-id from the button you just clicked var stock_item_id=$(this).attr('data-product-id');
- Inside the same function, after step 4, create an ajax call to the file from step 1 with the post data from step 4
- On successful execution of an ajax call, delete the corresponding product row you have marked with
id="remove_<?php echo $data["StockItemID"]; ?>" in step 2 with the following code $("#remove_"+stock_item_id).remove();
In the end, your code would look like this
YOUR INITIAL PHP AND HTML (With small corrections)
<?php
foreach($_SESSION["cart"] as $item) {
$data = getProducts($pdo, $item);
if ($data["ColorName"] == NULL) {
$color = "";
} else {
$color = "Color: ".$data["ColorName"]."<br>";
}
if ($data["Size"] == "") {
$size = "";
} else {
$size = "Size: ".$data["Size"]."<br>";
}
?>
<div class="basket-product">
<div class="item">
<div class="product-image">
<img src="http://placehold.it/120x166" alt="Placholder Image 2" class="product-frame">
</div>
<div class="product-details">
<h1>
<strong>
<span class="item-quantity">
1
</span>
x <?php echo $data["StockItemName"]; ?>
</strong>
</h1>
<p>
<strong>
<?php echo $color." ".$size; ?>
</strong>
</p>
<p>
Product Code - <?php echo $data["StockItemID"]; ?>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="price">
<?php echo $data["RecommendedRetailPrice"]; ?>
</div>
<div class="quantity">
<input type="number" value="1" min="1" class="quantity-field">
</div>
<div class="subtotal">
<?php echo $data["RecommendedRetailPrice"]; ?> * 1
</div>
<div class="remove">
<button data-product-id="<?php echo $data["StockItemID"]; ?>">
Remove
</button>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
JS
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.remove button').on('click', function() {
var stock_item_id=$(this).attr('data-product-id');
$.ajax({
url: "new_php_file_created_to_remove_item_from_session_via_ajax.php",
data:
{stock_item_id : stock_item_id}
}).done(function() {
$("#remove_"+stock_item_id).remove();
});
});
});
NEW PHP FILE (new_php_file_created_to_remove_item_from_session_via_ajax.php)
<?php
$stock_item_id = $_POST['stock_item_id'];
$key_to_remove = array_search($_POST['stock_item_id'], array_column($_SESSION["cart"], 'StockItemID'));
unset($_SESSION["cart"][$key_to_remove]);
if(isset($_SESSION["cart"][$key_to_remove])) {
return false;
}
return true;
For the sake of readability and further maintenance and possible additions, I would strongly recommend you to separate php, html and js code into separate files, but that's only a suggestion. :)
$_SESSION["cart"]is an array object right? do you want to remove a single item from it with the remove button or unset the whole session variable?