I want to add multile items toshopping cart

Hi Guys..
I am setting a shopping cart and it works OK with BUY NOW buttons and adds the product to the cart one at a time.

However, I want to select a few items, via checkboxes, and pass them to the cart.php all at the same time. The shopping cart has facility to change the quantities and update the cart.

This is a chopped down version of the sending code:

		$main_content .= "<form action='cart/cart.php?action=add&id=$id' method='get' target='new'>";
		if($color==1){
		$main_content .= "<tr bgcolor='#ffcc99'>";
// ORDERS 1
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>$product <font color=#ff0000><b>$comments</b></font></td>";
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>$packquantity</td>\n";
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>&pound$trade</td>\n";

		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'><input type='checkbox' name='id' value='$id'>\n";
 
		$main_content .= "</tr>\n";


		$main_content .= "<input type='submit' value='Place Order'>";
		$main_content .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='reset' value='Clear'>";

		$main_content .= "</form></form></td></tr></table>\n";

Code (markup):

The receiving code in my cart.php file is:

$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];  
$action = $_GET['action'];  

switch ($action) {  
    case 'add': 
        if ($cart) {  
            $cart .= ','.$_GET['id'];  
        } else {  
            $cart = $_GET['id'];  
        }  
header("Location: cart.php"); 
        break;  

Code (markup):

I think that the receiving code is wrong. It works OK for the BUY NOW button, one at a time, but it doesn't work for multiple additions.

Can anybody help ???

Thanks,

John C

 

"<form action='cart/cart.php?action=add&id=$id' method='get' target='new'>";

PHP:

should be

"<form action='cart/cart.php?action=add&id=".$id."' method='get' target='new'>";

PHP:

and

$main_content .= "</form></form></td></tr></table>\n";

PHP:

should be

$main_content .= "</form></td></tr></table><br>";

PHP:

also make sure when passing the items in the $id variable you make sure not to be passing special characters ex: '?&/\"
if you need those characters to be passed consider using POST rather than GET

Hope this helps and good luck

 

You're correct that your cart.php script is not designed to add multiple items to the shopping cart, and would need to be re-written to make it possible. But without seeing the entire script, it's impossible to suggest replacement code.

 

Hi Guys...

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my problems.
However, I have now fixed it.
If you are interested, here is what fixed it:
This is my original index.php code:

		$main_content .= "<form action='cart/cart.php?action=add&id=$id' method='get' target='new'>";
		if($color==1){
		$main_content .= "<tr bgcolor='#ffcc99'>";
// ORDERS 1
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>$product <font color=#ff0000><b>$comments</b></font></td>";
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>$packquantity</td>\n";
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>&pound$trade</td>\n";

		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'><input type='checkbox' name='id' value='$id'>\n";
 
		$main_content .= "</tr>\n";


		$main_content .= "<input type='submit' value='Place Order'>";
		$main_content .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='reset' value='Clear'>";

		$main_content .= "</form></form></td></tr></table>\n";

Code (markup):

This is what had to change it to:

		$main_content .= "<form action='cart/cart.php' method='get' target='new'>";
		if($color==1){
		$main_content .= "<tr bgcolor='#ffcc99'>";
// ORDERS 1
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>$product <font color=#ff0000><b>$comments</b></font></td>";
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>$packquantity</td>\n";
		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'>&pound$trade</td>\n";

		$main_content .= "<td valign='top'><input type='checkbox' name='id' value='$id'>\n";
 
		$main_content .= "</tr>\n";

//############### I HAD TO ADD THIS NEXT LINE #####################
		$main_content .= "<input type='hidden' name='action' value='add'></input>";
//############### NO OTHER COMBINATION WOULD WORK ##############

		$main_content .= "<input type='submit' value='Place Order'>";
		$main_content .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='reset' value='Clear'>";

		$main_content .= "</form></form></td></tr></table>\n";

Code (markup):

The next part was the cart.php:

$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];  
$action = $_GET['action'];  

$tmp='';
switch ($action) {  
    case 'add': 
        if ($cart) {  
            $cart .= ','.$_GET['id'];  
        } else {  
            $cart = $_GET['id'];  
        }  
header("Location: cart.php"); 
        break;

Code (markup):

This was the final solution:

$cart = $_SESSION['cart'];  
$action = $_GET['action'];  


switch ($action) {  
    case 'add': 


        foreach($_GET['id'] as $id){
               $tmp .=','.$id;
        }

        if ($cart) {  
            $cart .= ','.$tmp;  
        } else {  
            $cart = $tmp;  
        }  

	header("Location: cart.php"); 

//##### This next line was added because I was getting a spurious item at the begining of he cart. On checking, I found that the passed array was '2'3'4'5
The first , was causing the spurious item. Removing the firs character from the array solved it.############

$cart = substr($cart, 1); 

//#################################################

        break;  

Code (markup):

If you're not intersted, it may be of some help to others who may be struggling.
Thanks again,

John C