PHP Mail and Foreach function

Gerardoj · 10-06-2004, 02:02 PM

Hi Guys. I recently finished my session cart but I have a couple of questions:

When I want to display the cart items I do:

PHP Code:



 $items = $cart->get_contents(); 
 
  foreach($items as $item) { 
    echo "Code/ID :".$item['id']."<br>"; 
    echo "Quantity:".$item['qty']."<br>"; 
    echo "Price   :".$item['price']."<br>"; 
    echo "Info    :".$item['info']."<br>"; 
    echo "Subtotal".$item['subtotal']."<br>"; 
  }

But now I would like to send all the items of the cart by email, but I dont know how can I assign all the above function to a variable and send it as:

PHP Code:



mail($email, 'Subject' $alltheitems, 
     "From: $email\r\n" . 
     "Reply-To: $email\r\n" . 
     "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

Or how can you suggest me to send all the items via email?

I will appreciate some help.

Thanks a lot.

Hko · 10-06-2004, 02:27 PM

Something like this worked for me:

PHP Code:



$items = $cart->get_contents(); 
 
foreach($items as $item) { 
    $alltheitems  = "Code/ID : ".$item['id'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Quantity: ".$item['qty'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Price   : ".$item['price'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Info    : ".$item['info'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Subtotal: ".$item['subtotal'] ."\n"; 
} 
 
$email = "you@localhost";   // dummy example address 
$from = "shop@localhost";    // dummy example address 
     
mail( $email, 
      "Your order", 
      $alltheitems, 
      "From: $from\r\n". 
      "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() );

Gerardoj · 10-06-2004, 02:59 PM

Thanks Hko. I have another question. Do I need to decare $alltheitems inside the loop or outside?, cause I tried and it works fine but just send the last request item on the cart.

PD: what does .= do?

Thanks in advance..

Hko · 10-06-2004, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gerardoj
Do I need to decare $alltheitems inside the loop or outside?, cause I tried and it works fine but just send the last request item on the cart.

Hmm, I did try the script and for me it sent all the lines.
In PHP you don't need to declare a variable, just assign it a value.

Quote:

PD: what does .= do?

I appends a string to a string variable.

PHP Code:



$strvar .= "some text";

does the same thing as:

PHP Code:



$strvar = $strvar . "some text";

Note that in the loop I posted, the first time $alltheitems is assigned a string it does not have the dot ( . ).

Did you actually use the dots as in ".=" when you tried my script?
If not, that would explain why you get only the last item...

Gerardoj · 10-06-2004, 05:46 PM

Thanks lot Hko. now Its working fine.

I just changed it for:

PHP Code:



$alltheitems=""; 
foreach($items as $item) { 
    $alltheitems .= "Code/ID : ".$item['id'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Quantity: ".$item['qty'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Price   : ".$item['price'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Info    : ".$item['info'] ."\n"; 
    $alltheitems .= "Subtotal: ".$item['subtotal'] ."\n"; 
}

Thanks again

Hko · 10-07-2004, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gerardoj
I just changed it for:

PHP Code:



$alltheitems=""; 
foreach($items as $item) { 
// [..snip..]

That looks OK.
Didn't it work without initializing before the loop? ($alltheitems="";)
(just wondering)

Gerardoj · 10-08-2004, 05:24 PM

I tried but It didnt worked me.. Maybe I did it wrong...

But thanks again...

Regards....