number of items in a cart

[WindAndWaves]

Hi Folks

I am working with a session and a 'cart' (note that I do not really know what I am doing though).

I was wondering if there is some easy way (function) to work out how many items I have in my 'basket' / 'cart', because then I could
call this function from anywhere to show the user just how many items are on order

TIA

- Newbie Nicolaas

[WindAndWaves]

"craze3" <cr****@gmail.c om> wrote in message news:11******** **************@ z14g2000cwz.goo glegroups.com.. .

correct, you do not want to store any important information in a cookie
but this guy is so i was just helpn him out. I dont really use cookies
alot so yea...

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"Thank you very much- believe me or not - I don't actually have a
cookie set ... all I do is pass the session ID on from link to
link - I think. It seems to work so far anyway...."
-WindandWaves
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Im kind of confused but do you mean you do something like this:
http://www.site.com/shop.php?item1=s...rk?item3=knife
is that what your doing? Passing the variables through the URL and then
just GET-ing them?

I dont think I am using cookies - sorry if I have given you that impression.... I am just such a novice that I am not 100% sure.
All I do is the session start command and not much more (see code in another post).

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <er************ *******@news.xt ra.co.nz> from
WindAndWaves contained the following:

Care to tell us what or is it a secret? We could guess all day.

here is the code I use... I did not write it, but it seems to work....

Have you tried :

$count =count($_SESSIO N['cart']);
print "There are $count item(s) in the cart";

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[WindAndWaves]

"Geoff Berrow" <[e-mail] > wrote in message news:ks******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...

I noticed that Message-ID: <er************ *******@news.xt ra.co.nz> from
WindAndWaves contained the following:

Care to tell us what or is it a secret? We could guess all day.

here is the code I use... I did not write it, but it seems to work....

Have you tried :

$count =count($_SESSIO N['cart']);
print "There are $count item(s) in the cart";

Hi Geoff

It seems to be working fine now! Great - awesome in fact.

Thanks

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <iI************ *******@news.xt ra.co.nz> from
WindAndWaves contained the following:

Hi Geoff

It seems to be working fine now! Great - awesome in fact.

Just goes to show, it's not the answers that are difficult, it's the
questions... ;-)

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Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
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