Question

Okay, so I have a shopping cart problem.

I’ve decided to roll out my own cart, which is alot easier than I had expected. BUT, I’ve run into a problem and cannot for the life of me figure out what to do next.

The problem:

After adding products to the cart, the user is taken to a “checkout” page, where they edit the quantities of the items they want.

These items are displayed in a table.

How can I get these items with their edited/new values into a PHP variable, and then update the corresponding entries in the database?

The page in question is:

But to actually see stuff in the “checkout” page, you’ll need to visit:

http://www.com.au/.php and click on a few prices, and then click “Place Order” link just above the table.

Any help/advice at all would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, you just need to add a input variable.

<tr>
    <td>Cool Item</td>
    <td><input type='text' name='items[<?=$product_id;?>]' value='1' /></td>
</tr>

Then check the $_POST[‘items’] array.

foreach($_POST['items'] as $product_ID=>$quanity) {
    proccessItem($product_ID, $quanity);
}