[Resolved] Session arrays

jakeone

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here. I have a class operator as follows:

function addPos()
{
$this->posRef = $REQUEST['posRef']; // e.g. 123, 456
$this->posTitle = $REQUEST['posTitle']; // e.g. cook, painter
//add to session array
$SESSION['cart'][] = array($this->posRef => $this->posTitle);
echo "You have expressed interest in the following position(s):<p>";
while (list($IndexValue, $ElementContents) = each($SESSION['cart']))
{
echo "<BR>$IndexValue - $ElementContents";
}
}

The end result reads:

0 - Array
1 - Array

instead of what I want:

123 - cook
456 - painter

Any pointers appreciated. Thanks.

mtmosier

$_SESSION['cart'][] = array($this->posRef => $this->posTitle);

What this actually says is to take the array being created ($this->posRef => $this->posTitle) and add it as a new element to the $_SESSION['card'] array, using the next available numeric index.

Assuming you want to add/update the $_SESSION['card'] value as a brand new array with the values specified every time this function is called then you could just remove the empty square brackets, like this:

$_SESSION['cart'] = array($this->posRef => $this->posTitle);

Somehow I think it more likely you want to add a new value to the existing array each time around, with a specific index. If so, try this instead:

$_SESSION['cart'][$this->posRef] = $this->posTitle;

jakeone

Yes, you're right, I meant the latter. Thanks very much - it works even better than expected because it now ignores duplicate values 🙂 Thanks a lot.