Multiple items in a PHP shopping cart
- by Nick
I'm in the progress of making a shopping cart in PHP. To check if a user has selected multiple products, I put everything in an array ($contents). When I output it, I get something like "14,14,14,11,10". I'd like to have something like "3 x 14, 1 x 11, 1 x 10". What is the easiest way to do that? I really have no clue how to do it.
This is the most important part of my code.
$_SESSION["cart"] = $cart;
if ( $cart ) {
$items = explode(',', $cart);
$contents = array();
$i = 0;
foreach ( $items as $item ) {
$contents[$item] = (isset($contents[$item])) ? $contents[$item] + 1 : 1;
$i++;
}
$smarty->assign("amount",$i);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($contents);
echo '</pre>';
Thanks in advance.
