Basic array help!

[comedydave]

Hi guys,

I'm new to ASP and need some array help.

I need to have a shopping cart. When you visit the site it creates a session and an array. When you click add to basket it adds the item ID to the array.

I can't get my head around how i allocate it an array slot and then empty out the array in the checkout. I presume i'd need a loop or something to go through each array item and print it out.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

[jhardman]

Hi guys,

I'm new to ASP and need some array help.

I need to have a shopping cart. When you visit the site it creates a session and an array. When you click add to basket it adds the item ID to the array.

I can't get my head around how i allocate it an array slot and then empty out the array in the checkout. I presume i'd need a loop or something to go through each array item and print it out.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

I'm not sure you can do an array in session variables. I would put one long string like this:

session("cart") = "playdough, fakeMoney, turtleFood"
session("cartQuant") = "1, 3, 2"
session("cartPrice") = "3.14, 2.79, 1.99"
 

then to access them I would create arrays using the split function:

dim carts, cartQuants, cartPrices
carts = split(session("cart"), ", ")
'and so on

does this make sense?

Jared