PHP: Save variables into a SESSION?

Question

I want to save this data into a SESSION so it can be modified by the user(as a primitive shopping cart), but I need some light in here.

A) The information comes from a POST form.

B) The output should look like this:

SHOPING LIST
1. Coffe 5 units, 6 USD.
2. Banana 3 units, 3 USD.
3. Etc (The list can be infinite)

C) This is my current code, as you can see there is no session. And I need the user to be able to add more items.

 <?php

//Variables
$item= $_POST['item'];
$quantity= $_POST['quantity'];
$code= $_POST['code'];


//List
$articulos = array(

  'Pinaple' => 1, 'Banana' => 2, 'Aple' => 3, 
  'Milk' => 1, 'Coffe' => 3, 'Butter' => 1,
  'Bread' => 2, 'Juice' => 1, 'Coconuts' => 1,
  'Yogurt' => 2, 'Beer' => 1, 'Wine' => 6,
  );

//Price
$price = $items[$item] * $quantity;

//Shoping List

echo  "<b>Shopping List</b></br>";


echo "1. ".$item." ".$quantity." units".", ".$price." USD.";

//Back to index
echo "</br> <a href='index.html'>Back to Index</a>";


?>

David Fells · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-29 01:06:29Z

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Put session_start(); at the start of your script, you can then put anything you want into $_SESSION, including arrays of products.

$_SESSION['cart'] = $whatever_variable_you_want;

answered Apr 29, 2011 at 1:06

David Fells

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Gabriel Meono Over a year ago

Thanks for your help David, however I'm bit stuck, here is what I did: $_SESSION['cart'][1] = $item; $_SESSION['cart'][2] = $quantity; $_SESSION['cart'][3] = $price; I get the following error for each statement: Notice: Undefined variable:

David Fells Over a year ago

Sorry Gabriel, the entire error didn't come through. I'm guessing the $item, $quantity and $price variables are what it's saying are undefined. Perhaps edit your post with your current script? Try this: $_SESSION['cart'][] = array('price' => $price, 'item' => $item, 'qty' => $quantity);

Gabriel Meono Over a year ago

Thanks David, now is working! Now I'm trying to figure out how to echo those array values, I'm getting blank spaces even though var_dump is showing everything: echo "1. ".$_SESSION['cart']['1']." ".$_SESSION['cart']['2']." units".", ".$_SESSION['cart']['3']." USD.";

David Fells Over a year ago

In the structure I gave you it would be: $_SESSION['cart'][0]['item'], etc

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