join tables and send email

[mancroft]

First, to say that I really appreciate all the help from this forum!

Still on the shopping cart problem... the mysql database has two tables: cart and items please see details below.

What I am trying to do is create a mailform to send out details of the customer selections to the "shop".

So far the following is working:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cart",$con);

if ($result === false) die("failed");

while ($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)) {

$content .= "Ref no:" .$row[2]."\nqty: ".$row[3]."\n\n";}

This sends the ref no and quantity from the table cart.

What I wish to do AS WELL is to send itemName and itemPrice from the table items.

Any ideas please?

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table items:

Field Type Attributes Null Default Extra Action
itemId int(11) No auto_increment Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext
itemName varchar(50) Yes NULL Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext
itemDesc varchar(250) Yes NULL Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext
itemPrice decimal(4,2) Yes NULL Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext

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table cart:

Field Type Attributes Null Default Extra Action
cartId int(11) No auto_increment Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext
cookieId varchar(50) Yes NULL Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext
itemId int(11) Yes NULL Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext
qty int(11) Yes NULL Change Drop Primary Index Unique Fulltext

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[raf]

You can do this by joining the two tables

SELECT items.itemName, items.Price, cart.itemId, cart.qty FROM items INNER JOIN cart ON cart.itemId=items.itemId

(i suppose these are the fields you need)
But don't you need a condition to only get the items from a specific order or so?
I'd also suggest using mysql_fetch_array() instead (so you can use the variabelnames)
http://be2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-fetch-array.php