Re: session_name("CCLTrolley")

From: Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:15:45 +0000
Subject: Re: session_name("CCLTrolley")
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On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:11, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > Excellent. Thanks. I think I follow what you have done. But to > clarify, and learn, what are you doing with -= ? > $trolley[$item] -= $quantity; > Likewise, i had not followed what you were doing with the lines I > commented out. They did not seem to work, and I succeeded in doing > what I wanted without them. I'm a prof, as you can tell, and always > have a question for an answer ;). > Thanks for your time and patience, > John > > if( isset( $trolley[$item] ) ) "isset" checks that the item with ID $item is in the trolley. No need to decrease the quantity if it's not there. > > { > > $trolley[$item] -= $quantity; The expression: $trolley[$item] -= $quantity; is a short form for the following: $trolley[$item] = $trolley[$item] - $quantity; Essentially we decrease the quantity of the given item by $quantity. > > if( $trolley[$item] < 1 ) > > { Above we check if we subtracted more items than is physically possible :) > > unset( $trolley[$item] ); If there are 0 or less items then there's no point having 0 of the item in the trolley, so we unset the item from the array, which essentially removes it completely. To view the difference at each step you can do the following: <?php if( isset( $trolley[$item] ) ) { echo "Trolley before removing $quantity of $item<br />"; trolleyPrint(); $trolley[$item] -= $quantity; echo "Trolley after removing $quantity of $item<br />"; trolleyPrint(); if( $trolley[$item] < 1 ) { unset( $trolley[$item] ); echo "Trolley after cleaning up empty entry for $item<br />"; trolleyPrint(); } } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'

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