storing text box values in a session
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:48 am
Ok this is a bit of a tough one to describe - i basically have a shopping cart (session) which works fine.
The structure is as follows:
so an example with product 4 and pricing option 3 might look like this:
As i say, this works great. I now want to add options which would generate dynamic text boxes per product. i.e. for business cards.
In my database i have a field where i can store the initial fields like so
"Name|Job Title|Telephone"
these are then exploded to create the text boxes like so
Again this works fine.
This is where i'm stuck - how can i get these values and store them in the above cart? Even if i could store them as an array.
I should say that not every product will have options so this has to be dynamic.
If you need any more info please just ask.

The structure is as follows:
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$_SESSION['cart'][(productid)][(pricingoption)] = $qty;
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$_SESSION['cart'][4][3] = 1;
In my database i have a field where i can store the initial fields like so
"Name|Job Title|Telephone"
these are then exploded to create the text boxes like so
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$options = explode("|",$data->options);
foreach($options as $key=>$value){
#... GENERATE THE TEXT BOXES
}
This is where i'm stuck - how can i get these values and store them in the above cart? Even if i could store them as an array.
I should say that not every product will have options so this has to be dynamic.
If you need any more info please just ask.