The context is: e-commerce, the problem stands in adding items to the cart.
I created a while loop to iterate through each item my query returns and each item has a button that redirects to a "info on the item" page. My problem is that since there's a loop, the values to submit (e.g. the ID of the item) is overloaded and every button submits the values of the last item. I can pass all the IDs of all the plants but i have no idea how to, in the "item detail" page, to show the correct item among the array.
lista-piante.php: (summarized)
<?php session_start();
// connect to the database
$connessione = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', 'root', 'mio');
//query
$user_check_query = "SELECT Pianta.NOME as nome, PIANTA.ID as pid, Item.PREZZO as prezzo, Item.ID as id
FROM Item, Pianta WHERE Pianta.ID = Item.PIANTA";
$result = mysqli_query($connessione, $user_check_query);
if($result->num_rows > 0) {
echo"<h3>Lista delle nostre piante</h3>";
echo"<ul class=\"plant-flex\">";
// loop through records
while($row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
echo"<form method='get' action='../html/details-pianta.php'>";
echo"<li>";
echo"<div class='plant-preview'>";
echo"<div class='plant-preview-description'>";
//dichiarazione variabili (per leggibilità)
$nome= $row['nome'];
$pid = $row['pid'];
// PRINT NAME
echo"<div class='plant-preview-description-name'>";
echo "<p class='bold'>" . $nome . "</p>";
echo "<input type='hidden' name='name' value='$nome' />";
echo"</div>";
echo "<input type='hidden' name='pid[]' value='$pid' />";
echo"<div>";
echo"<button type=\"submit\" class=\"btn\" name=\"details_plant\">Dettagli" . $item . "</button>";
echo"</div>";
echo"</li>";
echo"<form/>";
}
$result->free();
}
echo "<ul/>";
$connessione->close();
details-pianta.php: (summarized, it will contain the style of the page)
<?php session_start();?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="it" lang="it">
<head> <!-- meta tag and other stuff --> </head>
<body>
<div>
<?PHP include('../php/dettagli-pianta.php'); ?>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
dettagli-pianta.php: (summarized, it should contain the info of each item)
<?php
session_start();
// connect to the database
$connessione = new mysqli('localhost', 'root', 'root', 'mio');
$pid = mysqli_real_escape_string($connessione, $_GET['pid']);
//but pID is either the last item's id, or an array with all items' ids, so i can't chose the only one i want
//the URL shows always more pIDs (from the lista-piante.php get form)
$user_check_query = "SELECT * FROM Pianta, item WHERE Pianta.ID = '$pid' ";
$result = mysqli_query($connessione, $user_check_query);
if($result->num_rows > 0) {
echo"<h3>Dettagli della pianta</h3>";
echo"<ul>";
//loop thought query records
while($row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
echo"<form method='post' action='../php/add-carrello.php'>";
echo"<li>";
echo"<div>";
//dichiarazione variabili (per leggibilità)
$nome =$row['NOME'];
//$genere= $row['GENERE'];
//$specie= $row['SPECIE'];
//etc etc
// PRINT NAME
echo"<div>";
echo "<p class='bold'>" . $nome . "</p>";
echo"</div>";
//echo"<div>";
//echo "<p class='bold'>" . $specie. "</p>";
//echo"</div>";
//echo "<input type='hidden' name='pid' value='$pid' />";
echo"<div>";
echo"<button type=\"submit\" class=\"btn\" name=\"add-carrello\"> Aggiungi al carrello</button>";
echo"</div>";
echo"</li>";
}
$result->free();
}
echo "<ul/>";
$connessione->close();
