[dazamate]

Ahh yes I seen the error in my ways,

I shouldn't continue to call my itemsincart() function ..

so what I did was $_itemsincart = itemsincart();

and just used the variable instead of the function each time so the results were consistent.

PHP Code:


function addtocart() // add the product to the cart using the product id.
    {
        if(isset($_POST['addproductid'])) // new products waiting to be added to cart from addtocart form
                {
                    
                    $_itemsinarray = itemsincart();
                    $_SESSION['cart'][$_itemsinarray][0] = $_POST['addproductid']; // add a new product onto the end of the array
                     $_SESSION['cart'][$_itemsinarray][1] = $_POST['productquantity']; // quantity of new product
                    unset($_POST['addproductid']);
                    unset($_POST['productquantity']);
                    
                    echo $_SESSION['cart'][$_itemsinarray][1]." * Product ".$_SESSION['cart'][$_itemsinarray][0]." added to cart";
                }
        } 


Now it works properly!, I looked at your code examples for alternative methods. But I am too much of a newb and I am just going to continue with the way I have done it so I don't confuse myself any further.

Thanks for your suggestions and help, I can see I am going to learn a lot in these forums ..

As for you...