Only ITEM QUANTITY is render to the cart

Question

I'm trying to render the data for a specific item. At first I used a code which render its quantity and its ID. Well its work.

Here's the code:

<?php
//render the cart for the user to view
$cartOutput = "";
if(!isset($_SESSION["cart_array"]) || count($_SESSION["cart_array"]) < 1) {
    $cartOutput = "<h2 align='center'>Your shopping cart is empty</h2>";
    }else{
        $i = 0;
        foreach($_SESSION["cart_array"] as $each_item) {
            $i++;
            $item_id = $each_item['item_id'];
            $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products WHERE id='$item_id' LIMIT 1");
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
                $product_name = $row["product_name"];
                $price = $row["price"];

            }
            $cartOutput .= "<h2>Cart Item $i</h2>";


            while(list($key, $value) = each($each_item)) {
                $cartOutput .= "$key: $value<br>";
                }
            }
        }
?>

But when I try to make more specific like only rendering its Id, name, price and quantity. It can only render its quantity.

Here it is:

<?php
//render the cart for the user to view
$cartOutput = "";
if(!isset($_SESSION["cart_array"]) || count($_SESSION["cart_array"]) < 1) {
    $cartOutput = "<h2 align='center'>Your shopping cart is empty</h2>";
    }else{
        $i = 0;
        foreach($_SESSION["cart_array"] as $each_item) {
            $i++;
            $item_id = $each_item['item_id'];
            $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products WHERE id='$item_id' LIMIT 1");
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
                $product_name = $row["product_name"];
                $price = $row["price"];

            }
            $cartOutput .= "<h2>Cart Item $i</h2>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item ID : " .$each_item['item_id'] . "<br>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item Quantity : " .$each_item['quantity'] . "<br>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item Name : " .$product_name . "<br>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item Price : Php. " .$price . "<br>";


            }
        }
?>

Can someone guide me here? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

My guess is that either the query failed or the field names you have used are wrong. Try adding this piece of code to check both possibilities.

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products WHERE id='$item_id' LIMIT 1");

if ( $sql === false ) {
    echo 'Query Failed: ' . mysql_error();
}

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
    print_r($row);   // check the field names in this array

    $product_name = $row["product_name"];
    $price = $row["price"];

}

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTION

Try this instead, I just saw that the output code was not inside the while loop. Not that you actually need a while loop as you have limited the query to return only one result LIMIT 1 .

<?php
//render the cart for the user to view
$cartOutput = "";
if(!isset($_SESSION["cart_array"]) || count($_SESSION["cart_array"]) < 1) {
    $cartOutput = "<h2 align='center'>Your shopping cart is empty</h2>";
}else{
    $i = 0;
    foreach($_SESSION["cart_array"] as $each_item) {
        $i++;
        $item_id = $each_item['item_id'];
        $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM products WHERE id='$item_id' LIMIT 1");
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
            // no real point in moving these values to another variable
            // just to print them
            //$product_name = $row["product_name"];
            //$price = $row["price"];

            $cartOutput .= "<h2>Cart Item $i</h2>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item ID : " . $each_item['item_id'] . "<br>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item Quantity : " .$each_item['quantity'] . "<br>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item Name : " . $row["product_name"] . "<br>";
            $cartOutput .= "Item Price : Php. " . $row["price"] . "<br>";
        }    
    }
}
?>