Question

I have a code that takes posted data from form A and then find the prices of goods and display them. Now i need to do more with the following data in the body of the 2nd form:
Item name
Item Qty
Item Price

The code is here:

<?php
echo "<div style='width:30%; height:auto; border: 2px solid;'>";
    echo "<h1>The Items Are...</h1><br>";
    //array that will hold the sum of each item cost
    $totalAmountArray = array();

    foreach ($_POST['basket'] as $name => $value) 
    {
        //indexer for totalAmountArray
        $i=0;
        if($value > 0){
                //echo $name . ": " . $value . "<br>";

            $itemPrice;
            //reassign 
            $itemName = $name;

            $itemQty = $value;
            //sql connection..
            mysql_connect();
            mysql_select_db("xxxxxx");
            $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pricing WHERE item = '".$name."'");
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
                $itemPrice = $row['price'];
                /*DEBUGGING*/
                echo "Item Name: <b>".$itemName . " </b>@ ";
                echo "<b>".$itemPrice ." </b>X ".$itemQty."<br>";
            }//end of while loop

            //multiply to get total for this item - store in temp
            $temp = $itemQty * $itemPrice;
            //store temp at index i in totalAmountArray
            array_push($totalAmountArray, $temp);
            unset($result);
            unset($itemPrice);
            unset($itemQty);
            unset($temp);
        }//end of if-statement
    }//end of foreach
    echo "<h1>Total Amount:<br></h1> ";
    //print_r($totalAmountArray);
    $sum;
    foreach($totalAmountArray as $perItemPrice){
        $sum += $perItemPrice;
    }
    echo "<b>SR. ".$sum."</b>";
echo "</div>";
?>

I am thinking of storing all the details returned from above foreach’s into multidimensional array to have something like this:

[0] => itemName => itemQty => itemPrice <br>
[1] => itemName => itemQty => itemPrice <br>
[2] => itemName => itemQty => itemPrice <br>
[3] => itemName => itemQty => itemPrice <br>
.....

would this be the best way? and how can it be done? I am really unfamiliar with multidimensional arrays in practice (only in theory).

Thanks a lot for the help and advice,

Answer 1

I may be wrong but since you want an advise I just do not see the point on why would you use a two dimensional array in this situation (although I may misunderstood your question and may wrong but I think the best way to solve your problem is to create a class Item in that class has a variables itemName itemQty itemPrice and then store information about every object item in to an array